STATE OF NEW YORK
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1656
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 13, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to the composi-
tion of the Niagara Frontier transportation authority
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 1299-c of the
2 public authorities law, as amended by chapter 801 of the laws of 2022,
3 is amended to read as follows:
4 (a) There is hereby created the "Niagara Frontier transportation
5 authority." The authority shall be a body corporate and politic consti-
6 tuting a public benefit corporation. The authority shall consist of a
7 chairman, [ten] twelve voting members and shall have one non-voting
8 member as described in paragraph (b) of this subdivision appointed by
9 the governor by and with the advice and consent of the senate. The
10 chairman and all members shall be residents of the district. Of the
11 [ten] twelve voting members other than the chairman, one shall be
12 appointed upon the written recommendation of the Erie county executive,
13 one shall be appointed upon the written recommendation of the Erie coun-
14 ty legislature, two shall be appointed upon the written recommendation
15 of the Niagara county legislature and at least one shall be a transit
16 dependent individual. The chairman and each of the members shall be
17 appointed for a term of eight years, provided however, that the chairman
18 first appointed shall serve for a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen
19 hundred seventy-three, and of the eight other members first appointed,
20 one shall serve for a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred
21 sixty-eight, two shall serve for a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen
22 hundred sixty-nine, one shall serve for a term ending June thirtieth,
23 nineteen hundred seventy, two shall serve for a term ending June thirti-
24 eth, nineteen hundred seventy-one, one shall serve for a term ending
25 June thirtieth, nineteen hundred seventy-two and one shall serve for a
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 term ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred seventy-three. The term of
2 one of the members appointed to memberships first created by law after
3 April first, nineteen hundred sixty-nine shall end on June thirtieth,
4 nineteen hundred seventy-four, and the term of the other such member
5 shall end on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred seventy-five. Following
6 the expiration of any term ending on or after June thirtieth, nineteen
7 hundred eighty-seven, each member shall be appointed for a term of five
8 years beginning on the day after the expiration date of such prior term;
9 provided, however, that the term of the member first appointed upon the
10 written recommendation of the Erie county executive and the term of the
11 member first appointed upon the written recommendation of the Erie coun-
12 ty legislature shall be for a term ending on June thirtieth, nineteen
13 hundred ninety-six.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
15 manner as chapter 801 of the laws of 2022, takes effect.
