S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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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is a resident of a county that has withdrawn from the metropolitan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.