Authorizes compensation for members of the Genesee Valley Regional Market Authority and establishes such compensation as a $150 stipend for each board meeting attended in order to attract and maintain quality representation on such board.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2266
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 22, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to authorizing
and establishing compensation for members of the Genesee Valley
Regional Market Authority
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 878 of the public authorities law,
2 as amended by chapter 55 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 4. A member of the board shall continue in office during the pleasure
5 of the body appointing him or her. Any vacancy which may occur by
6 reason of the death, disqualification, resignation or removal of a
7 member shall be filled by the body which appointed such member. Each
8 member of the board shall, before entering upon the duties of office,
9 take the constitutional oath of office and file the same in the office
10 of the secretary of state. Any member may be removed by the governor
11 for inefficiency, neglect of duty or misconduct in office, after a hear-
12 ing upon charges and an opportunity to be heard in person or by counsel
13 upon not less than ten days' notice. The members of the board shall
14 [not] receive [a salary or other compensation, but] one hundred fifty
15 dollars for each board meeting attended, and shall be paid actual
16 expenses incurred in attending meetings of the board and executive
17 committee and in performing committee work assigned to them by the
18 board, and shall be reimbursed for travel expenses at the per mile rate
19 allowed state employees for use of personal vehicles. The powers of the
20 authority shall be vested in and exercised by the board and the
21 provisions of section forty-one of the general construction law shall
22 apply; provided that the board may delegate to one or more of its
23 members or to its officers, agents and employees such powers and duties
24 as it may deem proper.
25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00447-01-9
