Provides that municipal housing authorities in cities having a population of one million or more shall be subject to the review and regulation of the authorities budget office.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5460
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 29, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. PARKER, HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations,
Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to making munic-
ipal housing authorities subject to the review and regulation of the
authorities budget office; and to repeal section 7 of chapter 913 of
the laws of 1957 amending the public housing law relating to incorpo-
rating certain provisions of the public authorities law therein,
relating to exempting municipal housing authorities from the public
authorities law
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 2 of the public authorities law,
2 as amended by chapter 257 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 2. "local authority" shall mean (a) a public authority or public bene-
5 fit corporation created by or existing under this chapter or any other
6 law of the state of New York whose members do not hold a civil office of
7 the state, are not appointed by the governor or are appointed by the
8 governor specifically upon the recommendation of the local government or
9 governments; (b) a not-for-profit corporation affiliated with, sponsored
10 by, or created by a county, city, town or village government; (c) a
11 local industrial developmental agency or authority or other local public
12 benefit corporation; (d) an affiliate of such local authority; [or] (e)
13 a land bank corporation created pursuant to article sixteen of the not-
14 for-profit corporation law; or (f) any municipal housing authority
15 located within a city having a population of one million or more.
16 § 2. Section 7 of chapter 913 of the laws of 1957 amending the public
17 housing law relating to incorporating certain provisions of the public
18 authorities law therein is REPEALED.
19 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
20 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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