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                                   2498
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2019
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 Introduced  by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
 
 AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to  establishing
   the  terms  of  the members of the board of the New York state thruway
   authority

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 352 of the public authorities law,
 as  amended  by  chapter  766 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as
 follows:
   1. (A) A board to be known as "New York state  thruway  authority"  is
 hereby created. Such board shall be a body corporate and politic consti-
 tuting a public corporation. It shall consist of seven members appointed
 by  the  governor by and with the advice and consent of the senate. [The
 members first appointed shall serve for terms ending three, six and nine
 years, respectively from January first next  succeeding  their  appoint-
 ment.  Provided,  however,  that two board members first appointed on or
 after the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand five
 which amended this subdivision shall serve an initial term of two years;
 provided further that two other board  members  first  appointed  on  or
 after the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand five
 which  amended  this  subdivision  shall  serve an initial term of three
 years. Their successors shall be  appointed  for  terms  of  nine  years
 each.]  A  member to be designated as chairman in his or her appointment
 as a member shall be chairman of such board until his  or  her  term  as
 member  expires.  The chairman and the other members shall serve without
 salary or other compensation, but shall be entitled to reimbursement for
 their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their
 official duties.
   (B) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW OR  THE  PROVISIONS  OF
 ANY  APPOINTMENT BY A GOVERNOR, THE TERMS OF ALL MEMBERS SERVING AS SUCH
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 ON MARCH THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND NINETEEN, OR ON THE  EFFECTIVE  DATE
 OF  THIS PARAGRAPH, WHICHEVER DATE IS LATER, SHALL IMMEDIATELY TERMINATE
 EXCEPT THAT SUCH MEMBERS SHALL CONTINUE TO SERVE UNTIL THEIR  SUCCESSORS
 ARE APPOINTED AND HAVE QUALIFIED.
   (C)  TWO  MEMBERS  OF THE BOARD APPOINTED ON OR AFTER APRIL FIRST, TWO
 THOUSAND NINETEEN, SHALL BE APPOINTED TO TERMS OF THREE YEARS; TWO OTHER
 MEMBERS OF THE BOARD SHALL BE APPOINTED TO  TERMS  OF  FOUR  YEARS;  AND
 THREE  MEMBERS  OF  THE BOARD SHALL BE APPOINTED TO TERMS OF FIVE YEARS,
 PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT SUCH MEMBERS SHALL CONTINUE TO SERVE  AFTER  THE
 END  OF THEIR TERMS UNTIL THEIR SUCCESSORS ARE APPOINTED AND HAVE QUALI-
 FIED, AND PROVIDED FURTHER THAT NOTWITHSTANDING THE TERM  TO  WHICH  ANY
 SUCH  MEMBER  SHALL  HAVE  BEEN  APPOINTED, THE TERM OF EACH MEMBER THEN
 SERVING SHALL TERMINATE ON THE SIXTIETH DAY AFTER THE INAUGURATION OF  A
 GOVERNOR OTHER THAN THE ONE THAT ORIGINALLY APPOINTED SUCH MEMBER UNLESS
 SUCH  NEW  GOVERNOR  SHALL  ORDER  THE  CONTINUATION OF THE TERM OF SUCH
 MEMBER. SUCH A CONTINUATION OF THE TERM OF A MEMBER  SHALL  NOT  REQUIRE
 CONFIRMATION BY THE SENATE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.