Add Yonkers Parking Board Members

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 corporation, 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 [appointment 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 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 chapter of the laws of two thousand seventeen 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 eighteen 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 nineteen. 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, 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 seventeen, 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.