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                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              April 6, 2009
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Introduced  by  M.  of A. CUSICK, CLARK -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

AN ACT to amend the New York city health and hospitals corporation  act,
  in  relation  to the financing of acute care or emergency room facili-
  ties

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

  Section 1. Section 6 of section 1 of chapter 1016 of the laws of 1969,
constituting  the New York city health and hospitals corporation act, is
amended by adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
  8. THE CORPORATION SHALL FINANCE THE OPERATION OF AT LEAST  TWO  ACUTE
CARE  OR  EMERGENCY  ROOM  FACILITIES  WHICH ARE LOCATED IN TWO SEPARATE
HOSPITALS IN EACH BOROUGH WITHIN THE CITY.
  S 2. Subdivision 1 of section 4 of section 1 of chapter  1016  of  the
laws of 1969, constituting the New York city health and hospitals corpo-
ration act, is amended to read as follows:
  1.  A corporation, to be known as the "New York city health and hospi-
tals corporation," is hereby created. Such corporation shall be  a  body
corporate  and  politic  constituting  a  public benefit corporation. It
shall be administered by a board  of  directors  consisting  of  sixteen
members, constituted as follows: five directors shall be the administra-
tor,  the  commissioner  appointed  by the mayor as chief administrative
officer of the health functions of the administration, the  director  of
community  mental health services of the administration, the administra-
tor of human resources of the city, and the deputy  mayor-city  adminis-
trator  of  the  city,  or their successors, all serving ex-officio; ten
directors shall be appointed by the mayor, five of whom shall be  desig-
nated  by  the  city council of the city of New York AND SHALL INCLUDE A
REPRESENTATIVE FROM EACH OF THE FIVE BOROUGHS; and the remaining  direc-
tor  shall be the chief executive officer of the corporation. Such chief
executive officer shall be chosen by the aforementioned  fifteen  direc-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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tors  from persons other than themselves and shall serve at the pleasure
of the board. The terms of the ten  directors  first  appointed  by  the
mayor, other than those serving ex-officio shall be as follows:
  Two  shall  serve  for  terms of one year each, one of whom shall have
been designated by the city council;
  Two shall serve for terms of two years each, one of  whom  shall  have
been designated by the city council;
  Two  shall serve for terms of three years each, one of whom shall have
been designated by the city council;
  Two shall serve for terms of four years each, one of whom  shall  have
been designated by the city council;
  Two  shall  serve for terms of five years each, one of whom shall have
been designated by the city council;
thereafter their successors shall serve for terms of  five  years  each.
The  mayor  shall  fill  any vacancy which may occur by reason of death,
resignation or otherwise  in  a  manner  consistent  with  the  original
appointment.  Directors  may  be removed by the mayor for cause, but not
without an opportunity to be heard.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.