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                                  4465

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 4, 2009
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Introduced  by M. of A. BRODSKY, HEVESI, PHEFFER, SPANO -- read once and
  referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to allowing  the
  New  York  state AFL-CIO to select a member to the metropolitan trans-
  portation authority

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

  Section 1. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section
1263  of  the  public  authorities law, as amended by chapter 549 of the
laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
  (1) There is hereby created the "metropolitan transportation  authori-
ty."  The authority shall be a body corporate and politic constituting a
public benefit corporation. The authority shall consist of  a  chairman,
sixteen  other  voting  members,  and  two non-voting and four alternate
non-voting members, as described in subparagraph two of  this  paragraph
appointed  by  the  governor  by  and with the advice and consent of the
senate. Four of the sixteen voting members other than the chairman shall
be appointed on the written recommendation of the mayor of the  city  of
New York; and each of seven other voting members other than the chairman
shall  be  appointed after selection from a written list of three recom-
mendations from the chief executive officer of the county in  which  the
particular  member  is  required to reside pursuant to the provisions of
this subdivision. Of the members  appointed  on  recommendation  of  the
chief  executive  officer  of a county, one such member shall be, at the
time of appointment, a resident of the county of Nassau; one a  resident
of  the  county of Suffolk; one a resident of the county of Westchester;
and one a resident of the county of Dutchess,  one  a  resident  of  the
county of Orange, one a resident of the county of Putnam and one a resi-
dent of the county of Rockland, provided that the term of any member who
is  a  resident  of  a  county  that has withdrawn from the metropolitan
commuter transportation district  pursuant  to  section  twelve  hundred

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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seventy-nine-b  of  this [article] TITLE shall terminate upon the effec-
tive date of such county's withdrawal from such district.  Of  the  five
voting members, other than the chairman, appointed by the governor with-
out recommendation from any other person, three shall be, at the time of
appointment,  residents of the city of New York and two shall be, at the
time of appointment, residents of such city or of any of  the  aforemen-
tioned counties in the metropolitan commuter transportation district. OF
THESE  FIVE  VOTING MEMBERS, ONE SHALL BE SELECTED FROM A LIST SUBMITTED
TO THE GOVERNOR BY THE NEW YORK STATE AFL-CIO. The chairman and each  of
the  members shall be appointed for a term of six years, provided howev-
er, that the chairman first appointed shall serve for a term ending June
thirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty-one, and the  sixteen  other  members
first  appointed  shall  serve for the following terms: The members from
the counties of Nassau and Westchester  shall  each  serve  for  a  term
ending  June  thirtieth,  nineteen hundred eighty-five; the members from
the county of Suffolk and from the counties of Dutchess, Orange,  Putnam
and Rockland shall each serve for a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen
hundred  ninety-two;  two  of the members appointed on recommendation of
the mayor of the city of New York shall each serve  for  a  term  ending
June  thirtieth,  nineteen hundred eighty-four and, two shall each serve
for a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred  eighty-one;  two  of
the  members appointed by the governor without the recommendation of any
other person shall each serve for a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen
hundred eighty-two, two shall each serve for a term ending June  thirti-
eth,  nineteen hundred eighty and one shall serve for a term ending June
thirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty-five. The  two  non-voting  and  four
alternate  non-voting members shall serve until January first, two thou-
sand one. The members from the counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam  and
Rockland shall cast one collective vote.
  S  2.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
the amendments to subparagraph 1 of paragraph (a) of  subdivision  1  of
section  1263  of the public authorities law made by section one of this
act shall not affect the expiration  of  such  paragraph  and  shall  be
deemed to expire therewith.