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                                   3546
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 3, 2023
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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] CHAIR 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
 expiration  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,
 HOWEVER, OF THE TWO OFFICES OF MEMBERS ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO THE CHAP-
 TER OF THE LAWS OF TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-THREE 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-FOUR 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  TWENTY-FIVE.  Each  member  shall  continue to serve until the
 appointment and qualification of his OR HER  successor.    Vacancies  in
 such  board  occurring  otherwise  than  by the expiration of such term,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 shall be filled for the unexpired term. NOTHING IN  THIS  SECTION  SHALL
 PRECLUDE  CURRENT  MEMBERS, AS OF JUNE FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-THREE,
 FROM SERVING OUT THE REMAINDER OF THEIR TERM. The members of  the  board
 shall  choose  from their number a [vice-chairman] VICE-CHAIR. 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, nine-
 teen  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.