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                                   3172
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 28, 2019
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 Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
 
 AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in  relation  to  increasing
   the membership of the board of the city of Yonkers parking authority
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 1596-c of the public authorities law, as  added  by
 chapter 673 of the laws of 1964, is amended to read as follows:
   §  1596-c.  City  of Yonkers parking authority. A board to be known as
 "City of Yonkers parking authority" is hereby created. Such board  shall
 be  a  body  corporate and politic, constituting a public benefit corpo-
 ration, and its existence shall commence upon  the  appointment  of  the
 members  as  [herein]  provided IN THIS SECTION.   It shall consist of a
 chairman, appointed by the mayor of the city of Yonkers, and [four]  SIX
 other  members, who shall also be appointed by the mayor.  The [appoint-
 ment of the] chairman shall [be] SERVE for a term of five years [and  of
 each  of  the  other members for terms of one, two, three and four years
 from the first day of April, nineteen hundred sixty-four. At the expira-
 tion of such terms, the terms of office of  their  successors  shall  be
 five years so that the term of office of one-fifth of such members shall
 expire  on the thirty-first day of March in each year]; PROVIDED, HOWEV-
 ER, OF THE TWO OFFICES OF MEMBERS ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO THE CHAPTER OF
 THE LAWS OF TWO THOUSAND NINETEEN THAT AMENDED THIS SECTION, ONE  MEMBER
 SHALL  BE  APPOINTED  FOR  A  TERM  TO COMMENCE ON THE DAY OF HIS OR HER
 APPOINTMENT BY THE MAYOR AND WHICH SHALL EXPIRE ON THE THIRTY-FIRST  DAY
 OF  MARCH,  TWO  THOUSAND TWENTY AND ONE MEMBER SHALL BE APPOINTED FOR A
 TERM TO COMMENCE ON THE DAY OF HIS OR HER APPOINTMENT BY THE  MAYOR  AND
 WHICH  SHALL EXPIRE ON THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF MARCH, TWO THOUSAND TWEN-
 TY-ONE. Each member shall continue to serve until  the  appointment  and
 qualification  of  his OR HER successor.  Vacancies in such board occur-
 ring otherwise than by the expiration of such term, shall be filled  for
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 the  unexpired  term.  NOTHING  IN  THIS  SECTION SHALL PRECLUDE CURRENT
 MEMBERS, AS OF JUNE FIRST, TWO THOUSAND NINETEEN, FROM SERVING  OUT  THE
 REMAINDER  OF  THEIR  TERM.  The  members of the board shall choose from
 their  number  a  vice-chairman.  The mayor may remove any member of the
 board for inefficiency, neglect of duty or misconduct in office,  giving
 him  OR  HER a copy of the charges against him OR HER and an opportunity
 of being heard in person, or by counsel, in his OR HER defense upon  not
 less  than  ten days' notice. The members of the board shall be entitled
 to  no  compensation  for  their  services  but  shall  be  entitled  to
 reimbursement  for  their  actual and necessary expenses incurred in the
 performance of their official duties. The powers of the authority  shall
 be  vested  in  and  exercised by a majority of the members of the board
 then in office. Such board may delegate to one or more of its members or
 to its officers, agents and employees such powers and duties as  it  may
 deem  proper. Such board and its corporate existence shall continue only
 to the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred  ninety-nine,  and
 thereafter  until  all  its liabilities have been met and its bonds have
 been paid in full or such  liabilities  or  bonds  have  otherwise  been
 discharged.  Upon  its  ceasing  to exist, all its rights and properties
 shall pass to the city.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.