N.Y. Pub. Auth. Law § 1840-B

Current through 2024 NY Law Chapter 457

Section 1840-B - Organization of Long Island job development authority

1.There is hereby created the "Long Island job development authority." The authority shall be a body corporate and politic constituting a public benefit corporation. Its members shall consist of four members appointed by the board of supervisors of Nassau county, four members appointed by the county legislature of Suffolk county and one appointed by the Long Island regional planning board.

2.Members shall continue in office until the expiration of their terms and until their successors have been appointed. Persons appointed for full terms as their successors shall serve for four years each commencing as of January first. In the event of a vacancy occurring in the office of a member by death, resignation or otherwise, the appointing authority which chose said member shall select a person to serve for the balance of the unexpired term.

3.The members of the authority shall serve without salary, but each member shall be entitled to reimbursement for his actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of his official duties and to a fee of fifty dollars per day when rendering service as such member provided that the aggregate of such fees to any one member in any one fiscal year shall not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars.

4.The members of the authority may engage in private employment, or in a profession or business, subject to the limitations contained in sections seventy-three and seventy-four of the public officers law. The authority shall, for the purposes of such sections, be a "state agency", and such members and the employees of the authority shall be "officers and employees" of the agency for the purposes of said sections.

5.The county legislature or board of supervisors or Long Island regional planning board may remove any member appointed by it for inefficiency, neglect of duty or misconduct in office after giving him a copy of the charges against him, and an opportunity to be heard, in person or by counsel, in his defense, upon not less than ten days notice. If any such member shall be removed, the chairman shall file in the office of the authority a complete statement of charges made against such member, and his findings thereon, together with a complete record of the proceedings.

6.The members of the authority once selected shall choose the chairman of the authority for one or more terms of one year each, who shall preside over all meetings of the authority and shall have such other duties as the authority may direct. A vice-chairman may be elected by the authority from among its other members for one or more terms of one year each. The vice-chairman shall preside over all meetings of the authority in the absence of the chairman and shall have such other duties as the authority may direct.

7.Five members of the authority shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business or the exercise of any power or function of the authority. Resolutions authorizing the issuance of bonds or notes of the authority and resolutions authorizing any loan, lease, sale or other agreement in respect to a project shall be approved by not less than five members of the authority and with the approval of at least one of the members appointed by the board of supervisors and at least one of the members appointed by the county legislature at a meeting duly called for such purpose, but for the transaction of any other business or the performance of any other power or function of the authority, the authority may act by a majority of the members present at any meeting at which a quorum is in attendance.

8.The authority may appoint such persons to serve as officers of the authority as it may deem advisable, including an executive director and a counsel, and such employees as it deems advisable, and may prescribe their duties and fix their compensation, subject to the civil service law and the rules and regulations of the civil service commission of the state.

9.The authority may appoint one or more advisory committees consisting of not more than seven members each to consider and advise the authority upon all matters submitted to them by the authority and to recommend to the authority such changes in the administration of this title and the operations of the authority as the advisory committee may deem desirable. Members of advisory committees shall serve without salary for such terms, not to exceed four years, as the authority may determine. Each member of an advisory committee shall be entitled to reimbursement for his actual and necessary travel expenses incurred in the performance of his duties.

N.Y. Pub. Auth. Law § 1840-B