Bill Text: NY A09234 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 9234 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to the membership of the Saratoga county water authority.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-04 - signed chap.335 [A09234 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A09234-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        9234--A
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     April 2, 2014
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       Introduced  by M. of A. McDONALD -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. STEC,
         TEDISCO -- read once and referred to the  Committee  on  Corporations,
         Authorities  and  Commissions  --  committee discharged, bill amended,
         ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to  the  member-
         ship of the Saratoga county water authority
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1199-ddd of the public authorities
    2  law, as amended by chapter 184 of the laws of 1995, is amended  to  read
    3  as follows:
    4    1. A public corporation known as the "Saratoga county water authority"
    5  is  hereby  created  for the public purposes and charged with the duties
    6  and having the powers provided in this title. The authority shall  be  a
    7  corporate  governmental agency constituting a public benefit corporation
    8  and shall be a "public district" for the  purposes  of  section  eighty-
    9  nine-l  of  the public service law. The authority shall be governed by a
   10  board consisting of seven members, who shall be residents of the  county
   11  and  be  appointed  by  the  chairman  of  the  board of supervisors and
   12  confirmed by the board of supervisors. At least four  members  shall  be
   13  elected  officials.  The  first members appointed shall be appointed for
   14  the following terms: four for a term ending  on  December  thirty-first,
   15  nineteen  hundred  ninety-six; three for a term ending on December thir-
   16  ty-first, nineteen  hundred  ninety-seven.  [Subsequent  appointment  of
   17  members  shall  be  made  in  the  same manner, except that at least one
   18  member shall be a resident of each municipality with which the authority
   19  has service or distribution contracts, and for terms of two years ending
   20  in each case on December thirty-first of the last year  of  such  term.]
   21  SUBSEQUENT  APPOINTMENTS  OF  BOARD  MEMBERS  SHALL  BE MADE IN THE SAME
   22  MANNER, EXCEPT THAT AT LEAST FIVE OF THE SEVEN MEMBERS SHALL EACH  BE  A
   23  RESIDENT  OF  A  MUNICIPALITY  WITH WHICH THE AUTHORITY HAS A SERVICE OR
   24  DISTRIBUTION CONTRACT, EACH OF THE SAID RESIDENT BOARD MEMBERS SHALL NOT
   25  BE A RESIDENT OF THE SAME  MUNICIPALITY  AS  ANY  OTHER  RESIDENT  BOARD
   26  MEMBER  AND  MAY BE ONE OR MORE OF THE AFOREMENTIONED ELECTED OFFICIALS.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD14423-05-4
       A. 9234--A                          2
    1  SUBSEQUENT APPOINTMENTS OF BOARD MEMBERS SHALL BE FOR TERMS OF TWO YEARS
    2  AND END, IN EACH CASE, ON DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST OF THE LAST YEAR OF SUCH
    3  TERM. All members shall continue to hold office until  their  successors
    4  are  appointed  and  have  qualified.   Vacancies shall be filled in the
    5  manner provided for original appointment. Vacancies occurring  otherwise
    6  than  by  expiration  of terms of office, shall be filled by appointment
    7  for the unexpired terms.  Members may be removed  from  office  for  the
    8  same  reasons  and  in the same manner as may be provided by law for the
    9  removal of officers of the county. In addition, members may  be  removed
   10  from  office  by  the  board of supervisors for inefficiency, neglect of
   11  duty or misconduct in office, after the board of supervisors  has  given
   12  such  member  a  copy  of  the charges against him and opportunity to be
   13  heard in person or by counsel in his defense, upon  not  less  than  ten
   14  days notice. If a member fails to attend three consecutive regular meet-
   15  ings  of  the  authority,  unless  such absence is for good cause and is
   16  excused by the chairperson of the authority or other presiding  officer,
   17  or  in  the case of the chairperson of the authority, by the chairperson
   18  of the board of supervisors, the office may be  deemed  vacant  for  the
   19  purposes  of  the nomination and appointment of a successor. The members
   20  of the authority shall receive no salary from the authority. Members and
   21  officers shall be entitled to reimbursement of their actual  and  neces-
   22  sary  expenses  including  travel expenses, incurred in the discharge of
   23  their duties.
   24    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.