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                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 5, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. COLTON, HEVESI, JAFFEE, WEPRIN -- 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:
    1    Section 1. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section
    2  1263 of the public authorities law, as amended by section 3 of part H of
    3  chapter 25 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
    4    (1)  There is hereby created the "metropolitan transportation authori-
    5  ty." The authority shall be a body corporate and politic constituting  a
    6  public  benefit  corporation. The authority shall consist of a chairman,
    7  sixteen other voting members, and  two  non-voting  and  four  alternate
    8  non-voting  members,  as described in subparagraph two of this paragraph
    9  appointed by the governor by and with the  advice  and  consent  of  the
   10  senate. Any member appointed to a term commencing on or after June thir-
   11  tieth,  two  thousand  nine  shall have experience in one or more of the
   12  following areas: transportation, public administration, business manage-
   13  ment,  finance,  accounting,  law,  engineering,  land  use,  urban  and
   14  regional   planning,   management   of  large  capital  projects,  labor
   15  relations, or have experience in some other area of activity central  to
   16  the  mission  of the authority. Four of the sixteen voting members other
   17  than the chairman shall be appointed on the  written  recommendation  of
   18  the  mayor  of  the  city  of  New  York; and each of seven other voting
   19  members other than the chairman shall be appointed after selection  from
   20  a written list of three recommendations from the chief executive officer
   21  of  the  county  in  which  the  particular member is required to reside
   22  pursuant to the provisions of this subdivision. Of the members appointed
   23  on recommendation of the chief executive officer of a county,  one  such
   24  member shall be, at the time of appointment, a resident of the county of
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1  Nassau,  one  a resident of the county of Suffolk, one a resident of the
    2  county of Westchester, one a resident of the county of Dutchess,  one  a
    3  resident of the county of Orange, one a resident of the county of Putnam
    4  and  one a resident of the county of Rockland, provided that the term of
    5  any member who is a resident of a county that  has  withdrawn  from  the
    6  metropolitan commuter transportation district pursuant to section twelve
    7  hundred  seventy-nine-b  of this article shall terminate upon the effec-
    8  tive date of such county's withdrawal from such district.  Of  the  five
    9  voting members, other than the chairman, appointed by the governor with-
   10  out recommendation from any other person, three shall be, at the time of
   11  appointment,  residents of the city of New York and two shall be, at the
   12  time of appointment, residents of such city or of any of  the  aforemen-
   13  tioned counties in the metropolitan commuter transportation district. OF
   14  THESE  FIVE  VOTING MEMBERS, ONE SHALL BE SELECTED FROM A LIST SUBMITTED
   15  TO THE GOVERNOR BY THE NEW YORK STATE AFL-CIO. The chairman and each  of
   16  the  members shall be appointed for a term of six years, provided howev-
   17  er, that the chairman first appointed shall serve for a term ending June
   18  thirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty-one, provided that thirty days  after
   19  the effective date of [the] chapter TWENTY-FIVE of the laws of two thou-
   20  sand  nine  [which  amended this subparagraph], the term of the chairman
   21  shall expire; provided, further, that  such  chairman  may  continue  to
   22  discharge the duties of his or her office until the position of chairman
   23  is  filled by appointment by the governor upon the advice and consent of
   24  the senate and the term of such new chairman shall terminate June  thir-
   25  tieth,  two  thousand fifteen. The sixteen other members first appointed
   26  shall serve for the following terms: The members from  the  counties  of
   27  Nassau  and  Westchester shall each serve for a term ending June thirti-
   28  eth, nineteen hundred  eighty-five;  the  members  from  the  county  of
   29  Suffolk  and  from the counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam and Rockland
   30  shall each serve for a term  ending  June  thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred
   31  ninety-two;  two of the members appointed on recommendation of the mayor
   32  of the city of New York shall each serve for a term ending June  thirti-
   33  eth,  nineteen  hundred eighty-four and, two shall each serve for a term
   34  ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty-one; two of  the  members
   35  appointed by the governor without the recommendation of any other person
   36  shall  each  serve  for  a  term ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred
   37  eighty-two, two shall each serve for a term ending June thirtieth, nine-
   38  teen hundred eighty and one shall serve for a term ending  June  thirti-
   39  eth, nineteen hundred eighty-five. The two non-voting and four alternate
   40  non-voting  members  shall  serve until January first, two thousand one.
   41  The members from the counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam  and  Rockland
   42  shall cast one collective vote.
   43    S  2.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
   44  the amendments to subparagraph 1 of paragraph (a) of  subdivision  1  of
   45  section  1263  of the public authorities law made by section one of this
   46  act shall not affect the expiration  of  such  paragraph  and  shall  be
   47  deemed to expire therewith.