Assembly Bill A5656

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Requires a quorum of members of the board of the New York city transit authority and the board of the MTA to attend certain public hearings

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-A5656 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5280
Current Committee:
Assembly Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1201 & 1263, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A1810
2013-2014: A5981, S3376

2011-A5656 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires a quorum of members of the board of the New York city transit authority and the board of the metropolitan transportation authority to attend certain public hearings conducted by such authorities relating to increasing the rate of fares or tolls, closing or reducing access to a passenger station and discontinuing or reducing service to any rapid transit or omnibus route.

2011-A5656 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  5656

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 24, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. NOLAN, MARKEY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
  GLICK, PHEFFER -- read once and referred to the  Committee  on  Corpo-
  rations, Authorities and Commissions

AN  ACT  to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring a
  quorum of members of the board of the New York city transit  authority
  and  the  board of the metropolitan transportation authority to attend
  certain public hearings conducted by such authorities

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

  Section  1.  Subdivision  5  of section 1201 of the public authorities
law, as amended by chapter 929 of the laws of 1986, is amended  to  read
as follows:
  5.  A majority of the whole number of members of the authority then in
office  shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business or
the exercise of any power of the authority.  A QUORUM SHALL  BE  PRESENT
AT  ANY  PUBLIC  HEARING REQUIRED BY LAW TO CONSIDER A PROPOSAL:  (A) TO
INCREASE THE RATE OF FARES OR TOLLS TO BE CHARGED;    (B)  TO  CLOSE  OR
REDUCE  ACCESS  TO  A PASSENGER STATION; OR (C) TO DISCONTINUE OR REDUCE
SERVICE TO ANY RAPID TRANSIT OR OMNIBUS ROUTE. IN THE CASE OF ANY  OTHER
PUBLIC  HEARINGS  REQUIRED  BY  LAW,  THERE  SHALL  BE NO LESS THAN FOUR
MEMBERS OF THE AUTHORITY PRESENT; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT SUCH  REQUIRE-
MENT  SHALL NOT APPLY TO HEARINGS REQUIRED BY THE FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMIN-
ISTRATION OR THE EMINENT DOMAIN PROCEDURE LAW. Except as otherwise spec-
ified in this title, for the transaction of any business or the exercise
of any power of the authority, the authority shall have the power to act
by a majority vote of the members present at  any  meeting  at  which  a
quorum  is in attendance.  In the event of a tie vote the chairman shall
cast one additional vote.  For the purposes of  the  voting  and  quorum
requirements of this subdivision, the voting and quorum requirements set
forth in subdivision three of section twelve hundred sixty-three of this
article  and  in any by-law of the metropolitan transportation authority

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09748-01-1

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