 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9616
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 26, 2018
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  service law, in relation to the minimum
          requirements for a quorum
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 11 of the public service law, as amended by chapter
     2  371 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 11. Quorum;  powers  of  a  commissioner.    A majority of the [duly
     4  appointed commissioners] total number of members of the  commission,  as
     5  such  membership  is  required  pursuant to section four of this article
     6  shall constitute a quorum and not less than a majority of such  [commis-
     7  sioners]  total  number of members concurring may transact any business,
     8  perform any duty or exercise any power of the commission.   The  commis-
     9  sion may hold meetings of the commission at any time or place within the
    10  state.  Any  investigation,  inquiry or hearing which the commission has
    11  power to undertake or to hold may be undertaken or held by or before any
    12  commissioner or before any specially authorized officer or  employee  of
    13  the  commission,  provided  that at least one commissioner shall hold at
    14  least one public hearing without delegation of authority to any special-
    15  ly authorized  hearing  officer  or  employee  when  such  hearings  are
    16  mandated   by  applications  for  rate  increases.  All  investigations,
    17  inquiries, hearings and decisions of a commissioner or specially author-
    18  ized officer or employee shall be and  be  deemed  to  be  the  investi-
    19  gations,  inquiries,  hearings and decisions of the commission and every
    20  order made by a commissioner, when approved and confirmed by the commis-
    21  sion and ordered filed in its office, shall be and be deemed to  be  the
    22  order of the commission.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    24  it shall have become a law.
 

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10314-04-8
Relates to the minimum requirements for a quorum

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