Bill Text: NY S07618 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires MTA officers and employees to report serious misconduct to the MTA inspector general.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-26 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S07618 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S07618-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 26, 2010
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       Introduced  by Sen. DILAN -- (at request of the Metropolitan Transporta-
         tion Authority Inspector General) -- read twice and  ordered  printed,
         and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
       AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring MTA
         officers and employees to report serious misconduct to the MTA inspec-
         tor general
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 1279 of the public authorities law  is  amended  by
    2  adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
    3    8.  EVERY  OFFICER  OR  EMPLOYEE  OF  THE   AUTHORITY, THE LONG ISLAND
    4  RAILROAD, METRO NORTH RAILROAD, METROPOLITAN SUBURBAN BUS AUTHORITY, THE
    5  STATEN ISLAND RAPID TRANSIT OPERATING AUTHORITY, THE  TRIBOROUGH  BRIDGE
    6  AND  TUNNEL  AUTHORITY,  THE  NEW  YORK  CITY  TRANSIT AUTHORITY AND ITS
    7  SUBSIDIARY, THE MANHATTAN AND BRONX SURFACE TRANSIT OPERATING AUTHORITY,
    8  OR ANY OTHER AGENCY THAT MAY COME UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE AUTHORITY, OR
    9  WITHIN THEIR CUSTODY OR CONTROL, MUST REPORT PROMPTLY TO  THE  INSPECTOR
   10  GENERAL ANY INFORMATION CONCERNING CORRUPTION, FRAUD, CRIMINAL ACTIVITY,
   11  CONFLICTS  OF  INTEREST OR ABUSE BY ANOTHER OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE RELATING
   12  TO HIS OR HER OFFICE OR EMPLOYMENT, OR BY A PERSON HAVING BUSINESS DEAL-
   13  INGS WITH THE AUTHORITY OR ANY OF THE  FOREGOING  AGENCIES  RELATING  TO
   14  THOSE  DEALINGS.  THE  KNOWING  FAILURE OF ANY OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE TO SO
   15  REPORT SHALL BE CAUSE FOR REMOVAL FROM OFFICE  OR  EMPLOYMENT  OR  OTHER
   16  APPROPRIATE  PENALTY.  ANY OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE WHO ACTS PURSUANT TO THIS
   17  SUBDIVISION BY REPORTING TO THE INSPECTOR GENERAL IMPROPER  GOVERNMENTAL
   18  ACTION  AS  DEFINED  IN  SECTION SEVENTY-FIVE-B OF THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW
   19  SHALL NOT BE SUBJECT TO DISMISSAL, DISCIPLINE OR OTHER ADVERSE PERSONNEL
   20  ACTION.
   21    S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
   22  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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