Assembly Bill A11493

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  11493

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 17, 2010
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Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Koon) --
  read once and referred to the Committee on  Corporations,  Authorities
  and Commissions

AN  ACT  to amend the public authorities law, in relation to the Roches-
  ter-Genesee regional transportation 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 1299-dd of the public authorities
law, as amended by chapter 388 of the laws of 2007, is amended  to  read
as follows:
  1.  (a)  There is hereby created the Rochester-Genesee regional trans-
portation authority. The authority shall be a body corporate and politic
constituting a public benefit corporation. It shall consist of at  least
one  member  from  each  county that elects to join the authority except
that the county of Monroe shall have seven members of whom  three  shall
be appointed from the city of Rochester and four at large from the coun-
ty of Monroe and shall have [one] ADDITIONAL non-voting [member] MEMBERS
as  described in paragraph (b) of this subdivision. The members shall be
appointed by the governor by and with the  advice  and  consent  of  the
senate. The governor shall make initial appointments to the authority in
such  number and from lists submitted as follows: three members shall be
appointed to the authority from a list of not less than six  names,  all
of  whom  must  be  residents of the city of Rochester, submitted to the
governor by the council of the city of Rochester; four  persons  from  a
list  of  not  less than eight persons, all of whom must be residents of
the county of Monroe submitted by  the  legislature  of  the  county  of
Monroe.  Other counties electing to participate shall each submit to the
governor a list of not less than two persons for each one hundred  thou-
sand  or  major  fraction  of the total population, as determined by the
last federal decennial or federal county-wide special census.  From  the
counties  outside the county of Monroe which shall elect to participate,
the governor shall appoint one member for each one hundred  thousand  or
major fraction of the total population, as determined by the last feder-
al  decennial  or  federal county-wide special census, with a minimum of

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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one member to represent each county outside  the  county  of  Monroe  so
electing to participate. All members of the authority shall be residents
of the area from which they are nominated.
  (b)  There  shall also be [one] ADDITIONAL non-voting [member] MEMBERS
of the authority, which shall not be considered in determining a quorum.
The non-voting [member] MEMBERS shall be recommended to the governor  by
[the]  ANY  labor organization [representing the plurality of the] WHICH
REPRESENTS employees within the authority and shall be a resident of the
Rochester-Genesee  regional  transportation  district  as  described  in
section  twelve  hundred ninety-nine-cc of this title. EACH LABOR ORGAN-
IZATION WHICH REPRESENTS EMPLOYEES SHALL BE REPRESENTED. The  non-voting
[member]  MEMBERS shall be appointed for a term of five years, provided,
however, that if at any time during the  term  of  appointment  [the]  A
non-voting  member  ceases  to be affiliated with the labor organization
[representing the plurality of employees  within  the  authority],  then
such labor organization may at any time during such term recommend a new
member  to  the  governor  who shall serve the remainder of the term. If
[the] A local bargaining unit decertifies its existing union affiliation
and certifies a new  union,  [the]  SUCH  union  [which  represents  the
plurality  of  the employees] may recommend a new member to the governor
who shall serve the remainder of the term. The chairman of the  authori-
ty,  at  his  or  her  discretion,  may exclude such non-voting [member]
MEMBERS from attending any portion of a meeting of the authority  or  of
any committee held for the purpose of discussing negotiations with labor
organizations,  pending  litigation involving the labor organization, or
the investigation, evaluation, or discipline of an employee.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately;  provided  however,  that
any new members to the Rochester-Genesee regional transportation author-
ity  pursuant  to  this act shall be appointed within 90 days after such
effective date.