S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3410
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 26, 2021
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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:
§ 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 TWENTY-ONE 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 TWENTY-TWO 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
TWENTY-THREE. Each member shall continue to serve until the appointment
and qualification of his OR HER successor. Vacancies in such board
occurring otherwise than by the expiration of such term, shall be filled
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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for the unexpired term. NOTHING IN THIS SECTION SHALL PRECLUDE CURRENT
MEMBERS, AS OF JUNE FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-ONE, 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.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.