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                                  4874

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 27, 2011
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Introduced  by  Sen. BONACIC -- 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 extending the
  term of existence of the Middletown parking authority

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 1621-c of the public authorities law, as  added  by
chapter 820 of the laws of 1986, is amended to read as follows:
  S  1621-c.  Middletown  parking  authority.  A  board  to  be known as
"Middletown parking authority" is hereby created. Such board shall be  a
body  corporate  and politic, constituting a public benefit corporation,
and its existence shall commence upon the appointment of the members  as
herein  provided.  It  shall  consist  of  a  chairperson and four other
members, all of whom shall be appointed by the mayor with  the  approval
of  the  common  council of the city. The appointment of the chairperson
shall be for a term of four years. Of the other members first appointed,
one shall be appointed for a period of one year, one for a period of two
years, one for a period of three years, one for a period of four  years.
At the expiration of such terms, the terms of office of their successors
shall  be  four  years.  Each  member  shall continue to serve until the
appointment and qualification of his or her successor. Vacancies in such
board occurring otherwise than by  the  expiration  of  term,  shall  be
filled  for  the  unexpired  term  by the mayor with the approval of the
common council. The members of the board shall choose from their  number
a  vice-chairperson  and  such  other  officers  deemed desirable by the
board. The common council may remove any member of the board for ineffi-
ciency, neglect of duty or misconduct in office, giving  him  or  her  a
copy of the charges against him or her and an opportunity of being heard
in  person,  or by counsel, in his or her defense upon not less than ten
days' notice. The members of the board shall be entitled to  no  compen-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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sation  for  their  services  but shall be entitled to reimbursement for
their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their
official duties. The powers of the authority  shall  be  vested  in  and
exercised by a majority of the members of the board then in office. Such
board  may  delegate  to  one or more of its members or to its officers,
agents and employees such powers and duties as it may deem proper.  Such
board  and  its  corporate  existence shall continue only to the thirty-
first day of December, two thousand [and  ten]  TWELVE,  and  thereafter
until  all  its  liabilities  and duties have been met and its bonds and
notes have been paid in full or such liabilities, bonds and  notes  have
otherwise been discharged. Upon its ceasing to exist, all its rights and
properties shall pass to the city.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.