STATE OF NEW YORK
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3546
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 3, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
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] chair shall [be] serve for a term of five years
11 [and of each of the other members for terms of one, two, three and four
12 years from the first day of April, nineteen hundred sixty-four. At the
13 expiration of such terms, the terms of office of their successors shall
14 be five years so that the term of office of one-fifth of such members
15 shall expire on the thirty-first day of March in each year]; provided,
16 however, of the two offices of members established pursuant to the chap-
17 ter of the laws of two thousand twenty-three that amended this section,
18 one member shall be appointed for a term to commence on the day of his
19 or her appointment by the mayor and which shall expire on the thirty-
20 first day of March, two thousand twenty-four and one member shall be
21 appointed for a term to commence on the day of his or her appointment by
22 the mayor and which shall expire on the thirty-first day of March, two
23 thousand twenty-five. Each member shall continue to serve until the
24 appointment and qualification of his or her successor. Vacancies in
25 such board occurring otherwise than by the expiration of such term,
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 shall be filled for the unexpired term. Nothing in this section shall
2 preclude current members, as of June first, two thousand twenty-three,
3 from serving out the remainder of their term. The members of the board
4 shall choose from their number a [vice-chairman] vice-chair. The mayor
5 may remove any member of the board for inefficiency, neglect of duty or
6 misconduct in office, giving him or her a copy of the charges against
7 him or her and an opportunity of being heard in person, or by counsel,
8 in his or her defense upon not less than ten days' notice. The members
9 of the board shall be entitled to no compensation for their services but
10 shall be entitled to reimbursement for their actual and necessary
11 expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties. The
12 powers of the authority shall be vested in and exercised by a majority
13 of the members of the board then in office. Such board may delegate to
14 one or more of its members or to its officers, agents and employees such
15 powers and duties as it may deem proper. Such board and its corporate
16 existence shall continue only to the thirty-first day of December, nine-
17 teen hundred ninety-nine, and thereafter until all its liabilities have
18 been met and its bonds have been paid in full or such liabilities or
19 bonds have otherwise been discharged. Upon its ceasing to exist, all its
20 rights and properties shall pass to the city.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
