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Senate Bill S1937

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to the membership of the board of trustees of the Queens Borough Public Library

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2017-S1937 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Cities
Law Section:
New York City Charter
Laws Affected:
Amd §2601, NYC Chart
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
S5443

2017-S1937 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the membership of the board of trustees of the Queens Borough Public Library.

2017-S1937 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S1937 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1937
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 11, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities
 
 AN ACT to amend the New York city charter, in relation to the membership
   of the board of trustees of the Queens Borough Public Library
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivisions 2 and 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,  are  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.
   19.  "Public  servant"  means all officials, officers and employees of
 the city, including members of community boards [and], members of  advi-
 sory committees, EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS AND KEY LIBRARY EXECUTIVE PERSONNEL
 OF  THE QUEENS BOROUGH PUBLIC LIBRARY, except unpaid members of advisory
 committees shall not be public servants.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01193-01-7

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