STATE OF NEW YORK
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4753
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 22, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
ment Operations
AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to the definition
of a "public body"
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 102 of the public officers law, as
2 amended by chapter 704 of the laws of 1979 and such section as renum-
3 bered by chapter 652 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows:
4 2. "Public body" means any entity, for which a quorum is required in
5 order to conduct public business and which consists of two or more
6 members, performing a governmental function for the state or for an
7 agency or department thereof, or for a public corporation as defined in
8 section sixty-six of the general construction law, or committee or
9 subcommittee or other similar body of such public body, and any entity
10 consisting of two or more members created by executive order of the
11 governor.
12 § 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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