Bill Text: NY A01477 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the commissioners of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; requires that at least one of whom shall be a resident voter from either the county of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster or Westchester and one of whom shall be a resident voter from either the county of Nassau or Suffolk.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A01477 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A01477-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1477
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 12, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, GUNTHER, JAFFEE, SKOUFIS, BRABENEC --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. LOPEZ, McDONOUGH, RAIA, THIELE --  read
          once  and  referred  to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and
          Commissions
        AN ACT to amend chapter 154 of the laws of 1921, relating  to  the  port
          authority of New York and New Jersey, in relation to the commissioners
          of such authority
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Article 4 of section 1 of chapter 154 of the laws of  1921,
     2  relating to the port authority of New York and New Jersey, as amended by
     3  chapter 419 of the laws of 1930, is amended to read as follows:
     4                                 ARTICLE IV
     5    The port authority shall consist of twelve commissioners, six resident
     6  voters  from  the  state  of  New York, [at least] four of whom shall be
     7  resident voters of the city of New York, one of whom shall be a resident
     8  voter from either the county  of  Dutchess,  Orange,  Putnam,  Rockland,
     9  Sullivan,  Ulster  or  Westchester  and  one of whom shall be a resident
    10  voter from either the county of Nassau  or  Suffolk,  and  six  resident
    11  voters  from  the  state  of  New Jersey, at least four of whom shall be
    12  resident voters within the New Jersey portion of the district,  the  New
    13  York  members  to  be chosen by the state of New York and the New Jersey
    14  members by the state of New Jersey in the manner and for the terms fixed
    15  and determined from time to  time  by  the  legislature  of  each  state
    16  respectively,  except  as  herein  provided.  Each  commissioner  may be
    17  removed or suspended from office as provided by the  law  of  the  state
    18  from which he shall be appointed.
    19    §  2.  Subdivision  1  of article 4 of section 1 of chapter 154 of the
    20  laws of 1921, relating to the port authority of New York and New Jersey,
    21  as amended by chapter 559 of the laws of 2015, is  amended  to  read  as
    22  follows:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 1477                             2
     1    1.  Commissioners.  The port authority shall consist of twelve commis-
     2  sioners, six resident voters from the state of New York, [at least] four
     3  of whom shall be resident voters of the city of New York,  one  of  whom
     4  shall  be  a  resident voter from either the county of Dutchess, Orange,
     5  Putnam,  Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster or Westchester and one of whom shall
     6  be a resident voter from either the county of Nassau or Suffolk and  six
     7  resident  voters  from  the  state  of New Jersey, at least four of whom
     8  shall be resident voters within the New Jersey portion of the  district,
     9  the  New  York members to be chosen by the state of New York and the New
    10  Jersey members by the state of New Jersey in  the  manner  and  for  the
    11  terms  fixed and determined from time to time by the legislature of each
    12  state respectively, except as herein provided. Each commissioner may  be
    13  removed  or  suspended  from  office as provided by the law of the state
    14  from which he shall be appointed.
    15    § 3. Sections one and two of this  act  shall  take  effect  upon  the
    16  enactment  into  law by the state of New Jersey of legislation having an
    17  identical effect with this act, but if the state  of  New  Jersey  shall
    18  have  already  enacted  such  legislation, section one of this act shall
    19  take effect immediately; provided, however, if chapter 559 of  the  laws
    20  of  2015 shall not have taken effect on or before such date then section
    21  two of this act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    22  manner  as  such chapter of the laws of 2015 takes effect; provided that
    23  the state of New Jersey  shall  notify  the  legislative  bill  drafting
    24  commission  upon  the  occurrence  of  the  enactment of the legislation
    25  provided for in sections one and two of  this  act  in  order  that  the
    26  commission  may  maintain  an accurate and timely effective data base of
    27  the official text of the laws of the state of New York in furtherance of
    28  effectuating the provisions of section 44 of  the  legislative  law  and
    29  section 70-b of the public officers law.