STATE OF NEW YORK
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4280
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 8, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations, Author-
ities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to prohibiting
the formation of a subsidiary of a public authority without prior
permission of the legislature
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 2827-a of the public authorities
2 law, as added by chapter 506 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, no state authority shall
5 hereafter have the power to organize any subsidiary corporation unless
6 the legislature shall have enacted a law granting such state authority
7 such power for the organization of a specific corporation[, provided,
8 however, that a state authority may organize a subsidiary corporation
9 pursuant to the following requirements:
10 a. the purpose for which the subsidiary corporation shall be organized
11 shall be for a project or projects which the state authority has the
12 power to pursue pursuant to its corporate purposes;
13 b. the primary reason for which the subsidiary corporation shall be
14 organized shall be to limit the potential liability impact of the
15 subsidiary's project or projects on the authority or because state or
16 federal law requires that the purpose of a subsidiary be undertaken
17 through a specific corporate structure; and
18 c. the]. Any subsidiary corporation shall make the reports and other
19 disclosures as are required of state authorities, unless the subsidiary
20 corporation's operations and finances are consolidated with those of the
21 authority of which it is a subsidiary.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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