Increases the minimum number of members of an industrial development agency's board of directors from three to four; provides that the board must include representatives of labor, business, local government and local school boards.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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174
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 4, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Local Governments
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to industrial
development agencies
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 856 of the general municipal law,
2 as amended by chapter 356 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 2. An agency shall be a corporate governmental agency, constituting a
5 public benefit corporation. Except as otherwise provided by special act
6 of the legislature, an agency shall consist of not less than [three nor
7 more than seven] four members who shall be appointed by the governing
8 body of each municipality and who shall serve at the pleasure of the
9 appointing authority. Such members [may] shall include representatives
10 of local government, school boards, organized labor and business. A
11 member shall continue to hold office until [his] a successor is
12 appointed and has qualified. The governing body of each municipality
13 shall designate the first chairman and file with the secretary of state
14 a certificate of appointment or reappointment of any member. Such
15 members shall receive no compensation for their services but shall be
16 entitled to the necessary expenses, including traveling expenses,
17 incurred in the discharge of their duties.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect one year next succeeding the date on
19 which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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