Bill Text: NY A07990 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to conflicts of interest and freedom of information applicability to the Brooklyn public library and the New York public library.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to libraries and education technology [A07990 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A07990-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7990
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     June 3, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Libraries and Education Technology
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  New  York  city  charter, in relation to public
         libraries; and to amend the public officers law, in  relation  to  the
         definition of agency
         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 2601 of the New York city charter,
    2  as added by  a vote of the people of the city of New York at the general
    3  election held in November of 1988, is amended to read as follows:
    4    2. "Agency" means a city, county, borough or other  office,  position,
    5  administration, department, division, bureau, board, commission, author-
    6  ity,  corporation, advisory committee or other agency of government, the
    7  expenses of which are paid in whole or in part from the  city  treasury,
    8  and  shall  include  but  not be limited to, the council, the offices of
    9  each elected official, the board of education, community school  boards,
   10  community  boards,  the  financial  services corporation, the health and
   11  hospitals corporation, the public development corporation, and  the  New
   12  York  city  housing  authority,  but  shall not include any court or any
   13  corporation or institution maintaining or operating a [public  library,]
   14  museum,  botanical garden, arboretum, tomb, memorial building, aquarium,
   15  zoological garden or similar facility.
   16    S 2. Subdivision 19 of section 2601 of the New York city  charter,  as
   17  added  by  a  vote  of the people of the city of New York at the general
   18  election held in November of 1988, is amended to read as follows:
   19    19. "Public servant" means all officials, officers  and  employees  of
   20  the  city, including members of community boards [and], members of advi-
   21  sory committees, except unpaid members of advisory committees [shall not
   22  be public servants], AND ALL EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS AND KEY LIBRARY  EXECU-
   23  TIVE  PERSONNEL FROM THE BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY AND THE NEW YORK PUBLIC
   24  LIBRARY.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1    S 3. Subdivision 3 of section 86 of the public officers law, as  added
    2  by chapter 933 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as follows:
    3    3. "Agency" means:
    4    A. any state or municipal department, board, bureau, division, commis-
    5  sion,  committee,  public authority, public corporation, council, office
    6  or other governmental entity performing a  governmental  or  proprietary
    7  function for the state or any one or more municipalities thereof, except
    8  the judiciary or the state legislature[.]; AND
    9    B. THE BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY AND THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY.
   10    S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.