S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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7990
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
June 3, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Libraries and Education Technology
AN ACT to amend the New York city charter, in relation to public
libraries; and to amend the public officers law, in relation to the
definition of agency
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 2601 of the New York city charter,
as added by a vote of the people of the city of New York at the general
election held in November of 1988, is amended to read as follows:
2. "Agency" means a city, county, borough or other office, position,
administration, department, division, bureau, board, commission, author-
ity, corporation, advisory committee or other agency of government, the
expenses of which are paid in whole or in part from the city treasury,
and shall include but not be limited to, the council, the offices of
each elected official, the board of education, community school boards,
community boards, the financial services corporation, the health and
hospitals corporation, the public development corporation, and the New
York city housing authority, but shall not include any court or any
corporation or institution maintaining or operating a [public library,]
museum, botanical garden, arboretum, tomb, memorial building, aquarium,
zoological garden or similar facility.
S 2. Subdivision 19 of section 2601 of the New York city charter, as
added by a vote of the people of the city of New York at the general
election held in November of 1988, is amended to read as follows:
19. "Public servant" means all officials, officers and employees of
the city, including members of community boards [and], members of advi-
sory committees, except unpaid members of advisory committees [shall not
be public servants], AND ALL EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS AND KEY LIBRARY EXECU-
TIVE PERSONNEL FROM THE BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY AND THE NEW YORK PUBLIC
LIBRARY.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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S 3. Subdivision 3 of section 86 of the public officers law, as added
by chapter 933 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as follows:
3. "Agency" means:
A. any state or municipal department, board, bureau, division, commis-
sion, committee, public authority, public corporation, council, office
or other governmental entity performing a governmental or proprietary
function for the state or any one or more municipalities thereof, except
the judiciary or the state legislature[.]; AND
B. THE BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY AND THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY.
S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.