Relates to the appointment of members of the Battery Park city authority; increases the number of members to nine; requires five of the nine members be primary residents of Battery Park city.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8030
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
September 13, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. FALL -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to the appoint-
ment of members of the Battery Park city authority
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1973 of the public authorities
2 law, as amended by chapter 63 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 (1) There is hereby created the battery park city authority which
5 shall be a body corporate and politic, constituting a public benefit
6 corporation. Its membership shall consist of [seven] nine members to be
7 appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. One
8 of the members first appointed shall serve for a term ending four years
9 from January first next succeeding his appointment; one of such members
10 shall serve for a term ending five years from such date; and one of such
11 members shall serve for a term ending six years from such date.
12 Provided, however, that two board members first appointed on or after
13 the effective date of chapter seven hundred sixty-six of the laws of two
14 thousand five shall serve an initial term of two years; provided further
15 that two other board members first appointed on or after the effective
16 date of chapter seven hundred sixty-six of the laws of two thousand five
17 shall serve an initial term of four years. Provided, however, that one
18 board member first appointed on or after the effective date of the chap-
19 ter of the laws of two thousand twenty-four which amended this subdivi-
20 sion shall serve an initial term of two years; provided further that the
21 other board member first appointed on or after the effective date of the
22 chapter of the laws of two thousand twenty-four which amended this
23 subdivision shall serve an initial term of four years. Their successors
24 shall serve for terms of six years each. Members shall continue in
25 office until their successors have been appointed and qualified and the
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 provisions of section thirty-nine of the public officers law shall
2 apply. In the event of a vacancy occurring in the office of a member by
3 death, resignation or otherwise, the governor shall appoint a successor
4 with the advice and consent of the senate to serve for the balance of
5 the unexpired term. After the effective date of the chapter of the laws
6 of two thousand [seventeen] twenty-four that amended this subdivision,
7 if the membership of the corporation is such that less than [two] five
8 of the members are primary residents of Battery Park city as described
9 by the Battery Park project area defined by subdivision five of section
10 nineteen hundred seventy-two of this title, any appointments made shall
11 be primary residents of Battery Park city. Appointments shall continue
12 in such a manner until [two] five of the members of the corporation are
13 primary residents of Battery Park city. Thereafter, [two] five of the
14 corporation's members shall be primary residents of Battery Park city.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
