Prohibits individuals in certain positions from taking any position with a business or entity doing business with an agency or industrial development authority.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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520--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 4, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to prohibiting
individuals in certain positions from taking any position with a busi-
ness or entity doing business with an industrial development authority
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 883 of the general municipal law, as amended by
2 section 7 of part J of chapter 59 of the laws of 2013, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 § 883. Conflicts of interest. 1. All members, officers, and employees
5 of an agency or industrial development authority established by this
6 chapter or created by the public authorities law shall be subject to the
7 provisions of article eighteen of this chapter.
8 2. (a) No member, officer, employee or independent contractor of any
9 agency or industrial development authority established by this chapter
10 or the public authorities law shall take any position, whether paid or
11 unpaid, including but not limited to an independent contractor, with any
12 business or entity applying for or receiving financial assistance from
13 such agency or industrial development authority while employed by or
14 rendering services to such agency or industrial development authority or
15 within two years after termination of such employment or rendering of
16 services.
17 (b) These restrictions shall not apply to workers, contractors, compa-
18 nies, and corporations performing maintenance, repairs or improvements
19 to the premises owned or leased by the industrial development authority
20 including, but not limited to, maintenance workers, landscapers, snow-
21 plowers, plumbers, electricians, painters and other trades workers.
22 These restrictions shall not apply to a member of a union who is a
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 member of the industrial development authority board and whose union has
2 members who work for an entity which receives or is applying for finan-
3 cial assistance from the industrial development authority.
4 3. Any person who knowingly and willfully violates the provisions of
5 subdivision two of this section and is compensated or receives any bene-
6 fit due to such violation shall pay a civil penalty to the agency or
7 industrial development authority in an amount equal to five times the
8 compensation or benefit received by such person.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
