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                                  4930

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 13, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Governmental Employees

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  administrative code of the city of New York, in
  relation to the composition of the board of trustees of the  New  York
  city employees' retirement system

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

  Section 1. Paragraph 5 of subdivision  b  of  section  13-103  of  the
administrative  code  of  the  city  of  New  York is amended to read as
follows:
  5. (a) [Three] FOUR employee representatives, who shall each be  enti-
tled  to  cast  one  vote.  The  chief  executive officer of each of the
[three] FOUR employee organizations designated as [herein]  provided  IN
THIS SUBDIVISION shall be one of such representatives.
  (b)  On  or  before  July first of the year in which this subparagraph
shall take effect, the director of labor relations of the city (or other
officer performing the same or similar functions  under  another  title)
shall,  by instrument in writing filed in his or her office and with the
board, designate (I) the three employee organizations  which  represent,
for  the purposes of collective bargaining on pension matters, the larg-
est number of employees who are members of the  retirement  system,  AND
(II)  THE  EMPLOYEE  ORGANIZATION  WHICH REPRESENTS, FOR THE PURPOSES OF
COLLECTIVE  BARGAINING  ON  PENSION  MATTERS,  THE  LARGEST  NUMBER   OF
UNIFORMED  EMPLOYEES  WHO  ARE  MEMBERS  OF  THE RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Such
designation shall be reviewed annually by such director or  other  offi-
cer,  and  if  such  review  discloses  a  change in the standing of the
employee organizations concerned, such designation  shall  thereupon  be
revised  by  him  or  her to specify the [three] FOUR such organizations
having the leading representational status as  [hereinabove]  prescribed
IN THIS SUBPARAGRAPH.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08697-01-3

              

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  (c)  Any  such  employee  representative may, by written authorization
filed with the board, designate one or more persons to act in the  place
of such member on such board in the event of the absence of such member,
provided,  however, that the by-laws or constitution of the organization
of  which  he  or  she  is chief executive officer authorize such desig-
nation.
  (d) Each act of such board shall be by  a  resolution  adopted  by  at
least  [three]  FOUR and [three-fifths] ONE-FIFTH votes. The concurrence
of one  employee  representative  and  one  non-employee  representative
member  or members entitled to one vote shall be necessary for an act of
such board. A quorum of such board shall consist of members entitled  to
cast at least [three] FOUR and [three-fifths] ONE-FIFTH votes.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.