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                                   1804
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 13, 2017
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
 
 AN ACT to amend the public authorities law,  in  relation  to  requiring
   that  two  member  positions  to  the  Niagara Frontier transportation
   authority be appointed by the mayor and common council of the city  of
   Buffalo

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of  section  1299-c  of  the
 public  authorities  law, as amended by chapter 220 of the laws of 2012,
 is amended to read as follows:
   (a) There is  hereby  created  the  "Niagara  Frontier  transportation
 authority."  The authority shall be a body corporate and politic consti-
 tuting a public benefit corporation. The authority shall  consist  of  a
 chairman,  ten  other  members  and shall have two non-voting members as
 described in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this subdivision appointed by the
 governor by and with the advice and consent of the senate. The  chairman
 and  all  members shall be residents of the district. Of the ten members
 other than the chairman, one shall be appointed upon the written  recom-
 mendation  of the Erie county executive, ONE SHALL BE APPOINTED UPON THE
 WRITTEN RECOMMENDATION OF THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF BUFFALO, ONE SHALL BE
 APPOINTED UPON THE WRITTEN RECOMMENDATION OF THE BUFFALO COMMON COUNCIL,
 and one shall be appointed upon the written recommendation of  the  Erie
 county  legislature.  The  chairman  and  each  of  the members shall be
 appointed for a term of eight years, provided however, that the chairman
 first appointed shall serve for a term ending June  thirtieth,  nineteen
 hundred  seventy-three,  and of the eight other members first appointed,
 one shall serve for a  term  ending  June  thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred
 sixty-eight,  two shall serve for a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen
 hundred sixty-nine, one shall serve for a term  ending  June  thirtieth,
 nineteen hundred seventy, two shall serve for a term ending June thirti-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 eth,  nineteen  hundred  seventy-one,  one shall serve for a term ending
 June thirtieth, nineteen hundred seventy-two and one shall serve  for  a
 term  ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred seventy-three. The term of
 one  of  the members appointed to memberships first created by law after
 April first, nineteen hundred sixty-nine shall end  on  June  thirtieth,
 nineteen  hundred  seventy-four,  and  the term of the other such member
 shall end on June thirtieth, nineteen  hundred  seventy-five.  Following
 the  expiration  of any term ending on or after June thirtieth, nineteen
 hundred eighty-seven, each member shall be appointed for a term of  five
 years beginning on the day after the expiration date of such prior term;
 provided,  however, that the term of the member first appointed upon the
 written recommendation of the Erie county executive and the term of  the
 member first appointed upon the written recommendation of the Erie coun-
 ty  legislature  shall  be for a term ending on June thirtieth, nineteen
 hundred ninety-six; PROVIDED FURTHER, HOWEVER,  THAT  THE  TERM  OF  THE
 MEMBER  FIRST  APPOINTED UPON THE WRITTEN RECOMMENDATION OF THE MAYOR OF
 THE CITY OF BUFFALO AND THE TERM OF THE MEMBER FIRST APPOINTED UPON  THE
 WRITTEN RECOMMENDATION OF THE BUFFALO COMMON COUNCIL SHALL BE FOR A TERM
 ENDING JUNE THIRTIETH, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FOUR.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.