Bill Text: NY S07648 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the appointment of members of the Battery Park city authority; increases the number of members to nine; requires five of the nine members be primary residents of Battery Park city.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS [S07648 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S07648-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7648 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE September 1, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to the appoint- ment of members of the Battery Park city authority The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1973 of the public authorities 2 law, as amended by chapter 63 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 (1) There is hereby created the battery park city authority which 5 shall be a body corporate and politic, constituting a public benefit 6 corporation. Its membership shall consist of [seven] nine members to be 7 appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. One 8 of the members first appointed shall serve for a term ending four years 9 from January first next succeeding his appointment; one of such members 10 shall serve for a term ending five years from such date; and one of such 11 members shall serve for a term ending six years from such date. 12 Provided, however, that two board members first appointed on or after 13 the effective date of chapter seven hundred sixty-six of the laws of two 14 thousand five shall serve an initial term of two years; provided further 15 that two other board members first appointed on or after the effective 16 date of chapter seven hundred sixty-six of the laws of two thousand five 17 shall serve an initial term of four years. Provided, however, that one 18 board member first appointed on or after the effective date of the chap- 19 ter of the laws of two thousand twenty-four which amended this subdivi- 20 sion shall serve an initial term of two years; provided further that the 21 other board member first appointed on or after the effective date of the 22 chapter of the laws of two thousand twenty-four which amended this 23 subdivision shall serve an initial term of four years. Their successors 24 shall serve for terms of six years each. Members shall continue in 25 office until their successors have been appointed and qualified and the EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11621-02-3S. 7648 2 1 provisions of section thirty-nine of the public officers law shall 2 apply. In the event of a vacancy occurring in the office of a member by 3 death, resignation or otherwise, the governor shall appoint a successor 4 with the advice and consent of the senate to serve for the balance of 5 the unexpired term. After the effective date of the chapter of the laws 6 of two thousand [seventeen] twenty-four that amended this subdivision, 7 if the membership of the corporation is such that less than [two] five 8 of the members are primary residents of Battery Park city as described 9 by the Battery Park project area defined by subdivision five of section 10 nineteen hundred seventy-two of this title, any appointments made shall 11 be primary residents of Battery Park city. Appointments shall continue 12 in such a manner until [two] five of the members of the corporation are 13 primary residents of Battery Park city. Thereafter, [two] five of the 14 corporation's members shall be primary residents of Battery Park city. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
