STATE OF NEW YORK
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3021--A
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
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 § 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.
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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 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
