Bill Text: NY S01881 | 2017-2018 | 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) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO CITIES [S01881 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S01881-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1881
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 11, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities
        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    §  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,  and all executive directors and key library executive
    22  personnel from the Brooklyn public  library  and  the  New  York  public
    23  library,  except  unpaid  members  of  advisory  committees shall not be
    24  public servants.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 1881                             2
     1    § 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    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.