Bill Text: NY A03449 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the minimum number of members of an industrial development agency's board of directors from three to four; provides that the board must include representatives of labor, business, local government and local school boards.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-14 - enacting clause stricken [A03449 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03449-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3449
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 29, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Local Governments
        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law,  in  relation  to  industrial
          development agencies
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1.  Subdivision 2 of section 856 of the general municipal law,
     2  as amended by chapter 356 of the laws of 1993, is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    2.  An agency shall be a corporate governmental agency, constituting a
     5  public benefit corporation. Except as otherwise provided by special  act
     6  of  the legislature, an agency shall consist of not less than [three nor
     7  more than seven] four members who shall be appointed  by  the  governing
     8  body  of  each  municipality  and who shall serve at the pleasure of the
     9  appointing authority. Such members [may] shall  include  representatives
    10  of  local  government,  school  boards,  organized labor and business. A
    11  member shall  continue  to  hold  office  until  [his]  a  successor  is
    12  appointed  and  has  qualified.  The governing body of each municipality
    13  shall designate the first chairman and file with the secretary of  state
    14  a  certificate  of  appointment  or  reappointment  of  any member. Such
    15  members shall receive no compensation for their services  but  shall  be
    16  entitled  to  the  necessary  expenses,  including  traveling  expenses,
    17  incurred in the discharge of their duties.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect one year next succeeding the  date  on
    19  which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00267-01-9