Bill Text: NY A02448 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that members of community boards in NYC need only be 16 years of age to be appointed to such board.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 31-2)

Status: (Passed) 2014-08-11 - signed chap.251 [A02448 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A02448-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2448
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 15, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A. ROZIC, KAVANAGH, WRIGHT, CAMARA, BENEDETTO --
         Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of A. GOTTFRIED, HEASTIE --  read  once  and
         referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
       AN  ACT  to amend the public officers law and the New York city charter,
         in relation to allowing  certain  individuals  to  become  members  of
         community boards in the city of New York
         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 3 of the public officers  law,  as
    2  amended  by  chapter  44  of  the  laws  of  1982, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    1. No person shall be capable of holding a civil office who shall not,
    5  at the time he OR SHE shall be chosen thereto, have attained the age  of
    6  eighteen  years,  except that in the case of youth boards, youth commis-
    7  sions [or], recreation commissions, OR COMMUNITY BOARDS IN THE  CITY  OF
    8  NEW  YORK  only,  members of such boards or commissions may be under the
    9  age of eighteen years, but must have attained the age of  sixteen  years
   10  on  or  before  appointment  to such youth board, youth commission [or],
   11  recreation commission, OR COMMUNITY BOARD IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, be  a
   12  citizen  of  the  United States, a resident of the state, and if it be a
   13  local office, a resident  of  the  political  subdivision  or  municipal
   14  corporation  of the state for which he OR SHE shall be chosen, or within
   15  which the electors electing him OR HER reside, or within  which  his  OR
   16  HER  official  functions are required to be exercised, or who shall have
   17  been or shall be convicted of a violation of the selective draft act  of
   18  the  United  States, enacted May eighteenth, nineteen hundred seventeen,
   19  or the acts amendatory or supplemental thereto, or of the federal selec-
   20  tive training and service act of nineteen  hundred  forty  or  the  acts
   21  amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD03129-01-3
       A. 2448                             2
    1    S  2.  Subdivision  a of section 2800 of the New York city charter, as
    2  amended by a vote of the people of the city of New York at  the  general
    3  election held in November of 1989, is amended to read as follows:
    4    a.  For each community district created pursuant to chapter sixty-nine
    5  there shall be a community board which shall consist  of  (1)  not  more
    6  than  fifty  persons  appointed  by  the borough president for staggered
    7  terms of two years, at least one-half of whom shall  be  appointed  from
    8  nominees  of  the  council  members elected from council districts which
    9  include any part of the community district, and  (2)  all  such  council
   10  members  as  non-voting  members. The number of members appointed on the
   11  nomination of each such council member  shall  be  proportional  to  the
   12  share of the district population represented by such council member. The
   13  city  planning  commission, after each council redistricting pursuant to
   14  chapter two-A,  and  after  each  community  redistricting  pursuant  to
   15  section  twenty-seven hundred two, shall determine the proportion of the
   16  community district's population  represented  by  each  council  member.
   17  Copies  of  such  determinations  shall  be  filed  with the appropriate
   18  borough president, community board, and council member. One-half of  the
   19  members  appointed  to any community board shall serve for a term of two
   20  years beginning on the first day of April in each odd-numbered  year  in
   21  which  they  take  office  and  one half of the members appointed to any
   22  community board shall serve for a term of two  years  beginning  on  the
   23  first day of April in each even-numbered year in which they take office.
   24  Members  shall  serve until their successors are appointed but no member
   25  may serve for more than sixty days after the expiration of  his  or  her
   26  original term unless reappointed by the borough president. Not more than
   27  twenty-five percent of the appointed members shall be city employees. NO
   28  MORE  THAN  TWO  MEMBERS  SHALL  BE  LESS THAN EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE. No
   29  person shall be appointed to or remain as a member of the board who does
   30  not have a residence, business, professional or other significant inter-
   31  est in the district. The borough president shall assure adequate  repre-
   32  sentation from the different geographic sections and neighborhoods with-
   33  in  the  community  district.  In  making such appointments, the borough
   34  president shall consider whether the aggregate  of  appointments  fairly
   35  represents all segments of the community. Community boards, civic groups
   36  and  other  community  groups  and  neighborhood associations may submit
   37  nominations to the borough president and to council members.
   38    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.