Bill Text: NY S03021 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 3021 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Provides for the appointment of 2 more members to the board of the city of Yonkers parking authority.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS [S03021 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S03021-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        3021--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 28, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  STEWART-COUSINS -- read twice and ordered printed,
         and when printed to be committed to  the  Committee  on  Corporations,
         Authorities  and  Commissions  --  committee discharged, bill amended,
         ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in  relation  to  increasing
         the membership of the board of the city of Yonkers parking authority
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 1596-c of the public authorities law, as  added  by
    2  chapter 673 of the laws of 1964, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S  1596-c.  City  of Yonkers parking authority. A board to be known as
    4  "City of Yonkers parking authority" is hereby created. Such board  shall
    5  be  a  body  corporate and politic, constituting a public benefit corpo-
    6  ration, and its existence shall commence upon  the  appointment  of  the
    7  members  as  [herein]  provided IN THIS SECTION.   It shall consist of a
    8  chairman, appointed by the mayor of the city of Yonkers, and [four]  SIX
    9  other  members, who shall also be appointed by the mayor.  The [appoint-
   10  ment of the] chairman shall [be] SERVE for a term of five years [and  of
   11  each  of  the  other members for terms of one, two, three and four years
   12  from the first day of April, nineteen hundred sixty-four. At the expira-
   13  tion of such terms, the terms of office of  their  successors  shall  be
   14  five years so that the term of office of one-fifth of such members shall
   15  expire  on the thirty-first day of March in each year]; PROVIDED, HOWEV-
   16  ER, OF THE TWO OFFICES OF MEMBERS ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO THE CHAPTER OF
   17  THE LAWS OF TWO THOUSAND THIRTEEN THAT AMENDED THIS SECTION, ONE  MEMBER
   18  SHALL  BE  APPOINTED  FOR  A  TERM  TO COMMENCE ON THE DAY OF HIS OR HER
   19  APPOINTMENT BY THE MAYOR AND WHICH SHALL EXPIRE ON THE THIRTY-FIRST  DAY
   20  OF  MARCH, TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN AND ONE MEMBER SHALL BE APPOINTED FOR A
   21  TERM TO COMMENCE ON THE DAY OF HIS OR HER APPOINTMENT BY THE  MAYOR  AND
   22  WHICH  SHALL  EXPIRE  ON  THE  THIRTY-FIRST  DAY  OF MARCH, TWO THOUSAND
   23  FIFTEEN. Each member shall continue to serve until the  appointment  and
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD03276-03-3
       S. 3021--A                          2
    1  qualification  of  his OR HER successor.  Vacancies in such board occur-
    2  ring otherwise than by the expiration of such term, shall be filled  for
    3  the  unexpired  term.  NOTHING  IN  THIS  SECTION SHALL PRECLUDE CURRENT
    4  MEMBERS,  AS  OF JUNE FIRST, TWO THOUSAND THIRTEEN, FROM SERVING OUT THE
    5  REMAINDER OF THEIR TERM. The members of  the  board  shall  choose  from
    6  their  number  a  vice-chairman.  The mayor may remove any member of the
    7  board for inefficiency, neglect of duty or misconduct in office,  giving
    8  him  OR  HER a copy of the charges against him OR HER and an opportunity
    9  of being heard in person, or by counsel, in his OR HER defense upon  not
   10  less  than  ten days' notice. The members of the board shall be entitled
   11  to  no  compensation  for  their  services  but  shall  be  entitled  to
   12  reimbursement  for  their  actual and necessary expenses incurred in the
   13  performance of their official duties. The powers of the authority  shall
   14  be  vested  in  and  exercised by a majority of the members of the board
   15  then in office. Such board may delegate to one or more of its members or
   16  to its officers, agents and employees such powers and duties as  it  may
   17  deem  proper. Such board and its corporate existence shall continue only
   18  to the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred  ninety-nine,  and
   19  thereafter  until  all  its liabilities have been met and its bonds have
   20  been paid in full or such  liabilities  or  bonds  have  otherwise  been
   21  discharged.  Upon  its  ceasing  to exist, all its rights and properties
   22  shall pass to the city.
   23    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.