Requires a quorum of members of the board of the New York city transit authority and the board of the metropolitan transportation authority to attend certain public hearings conducted by such authorities relating to increasing the rate of fares or tolls, closing or reducing access to a passenger station and discontinuing or reducing service to any rapid transit or omnibus route.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5981
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 12, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. NOLAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring a
quorum of members of the board of the New York city transit authority
and the board of the metropolitan transportation authority to attend
certain public hearings conducted by such authorities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 1201 of the public authorities
2 law, as amended by chapter 929 of the laws of 1986, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 5. A majority of the whole number of members of the authority then in
5 office shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business or
6 the exercise of any power of the authority. A quorum shall be present
7 at any public hearing required by law to consider a proposal: (a) to
8 increase the rate of fares or tolls to be charged; (b) to close or
9 reduce access to a passenger station; or (c) to discontinue or reduce
10 service to any rapid transit or omnibus route. In the case of any other
11 public hearings required by law, there shall be no less than four
12 members of the authority present; provided, however, that such require-
13 ment shall not apply to hearings required by the federal transit admin-
14 istration or the eminent domain procedure law. Except as otherwise spec-
15 ified in this title, for the transaction of any business or the exercise
16 of any power of the authority, the authority shall have the power to act
17 by a majority vote of the members present at any meeting at which a
18 quorum is in attendance. In the event of a tie vote the chairman shall
19 cast one additional vote. For the purposes of the voting and quorum
20 requirements of this subdivision, the voting and quorum requirements set
21 forth in subdivision three of section twelve hundred sixty-three of this
22 article and in any by-law of the metropolitan transportation authority
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 adopted pursuant to the provisions of such subdivision shall be applica-
2 ble hereto.
3 § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section 1263 of the public
4 authorities law, as amended by chapter 929 of the laws of 1986, is
5 amended to read as follows:
6 (a) A majority of the whole number of members of the authority then in
7 office shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business or
8 the exercise of any power of the authority. A quorum shall be present
9 at any public hearing required by law to consider a proposal: (1) to
10 increase the rate of fares or tolls to be charged; (2) to close or
11 reduce access to a passenger station; or (3) to discontinue or reduce
12 service to any rapid transit or omnibus route. In the case of any other
13 public hearings required by law, there shall be no less than four
14 members of the authority present; provided, however, that such require-
15 ment shall not apply to hearings required by the federal transit admin-
16 istration or the eminent domain procedure law. Except as otherwise spec-
17 ified in this title, for the transaction of any business or the exercise
18 of any power of the authority, the authority shall have power to act by
19 a majority vote of the members present at any meeting at which a quorum
20 is in attendance and except further, that in the event of a tie vote the
21 chairman shall cast one additional vote.
22 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of September next
23 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
