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                                  6935

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              April 6, 2011
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Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee 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-
sation for their services but shall be  entitled  to  reimbursement  for

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