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                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 12, 2015
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Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in  relation  to  increasing
  the membership of the board of the city of Yonkers parking authority

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

  Section 1. Section 1596-c of the public authorities law, as  added  by
chapter 673 of the laws of 1964, is amended to read as follows:
  S  1596-c.  City  of Yonkers parking authority. A board to be known as
"City of Yonkers parking authority" is hereby created. Such board  shall
be  a  body  corporate and politic, constituting a public benefit corpo-
ration, and its existence shall commence upon  the  appointment  of  the
members  as  [herein]  provided IN THIS SECTION.   It shall consist of a
chairman, appointed by the mayor of the city of Yonkers, and [four]  SIX
other  members, who shall also be appointed by the mayor.  The [appoint-
ment of the] chairman shall [be] SERVE for a term of five years [and  of
each  of  the  other members for terms of one, two, three and four years
from the first day of April, nineteen hundred sixty-four. At the expira-
tion of such terms, the terms of office of  their  successors  shall  be
five years so that the term of office of one-fifth of such members shall
expire  on the thirty-first day of March in each year]; PROVIDED, HOWEV-
ER, OF THE TWO OFFICES OF MEMBERS ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO THE CHAPTER OF
THE LAWS OF TWO THOUSAND FIFTEEN THAT AMENDED THIS SECTION,  ONE  MEMBER
SHALL  BE  APPOINTED  FOR  A  TERM  TO COMMENCE ON THE DAY OF HIS OR HER
APPOINTMENT BY THE MAYOR AND WHICH SHALL EXPIRE ON THE THIRTY-FIRST  DAY
OF  MARCH,  TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN AND ONE MEMBER SHALL BE APPOINTED FOR A
TERM TO COMMENCE ON THE DAY OF HIS OR HER APPOINTMENT BY THE  MAYOR  AND
WHICH SHALL EXPIRE ON THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF MARCH, TWO THOUSAND SEVEN-
TEEN.  Each  member  shall  continue  to serve until the appointment and
qualification of his OR HER successor.  Vacancies in such  board  occur-
ring  otherwise than by the expiration of such term, shall be filled for

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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the unexpired term. NOTHING  IN  THIS  SECTION  SHALL  PRECLUDE  CURRENT
MEMBERS,  AS  OF  JUNE FIRST, TWO THOUSAND FIFTEEN, FROM SERVING OUT THE
REMAINDER OF THEIR TERM. The members of  the  board  shall  choose  from
their  number  a  vice-chairman.  The mayor may remove any member of the
board for inefficiency, 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  compensation  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, nineteen hundred  ninety-nine,  and
thereafter  until  all  its liabilities have been met and its bonds have
been paid in full or such  liabilities  or  bonds  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.