2006 New York Code - New York State Sports Authority.

 
    * §  2463.  New  York  state  sports  authority. 1. For the purpose of
  effectuating  the  policy  declared  in  section   twenty-four   hundred
  sixty-one   of  this  chapter,  there  is  hereby  created  a  corporate
  instrumentality of the state to be  known  as  "New  York  state  sports
  authority"  in this title referred to as "the authority", which shall be
  a body corporate and politic constituting a public benefit  corporation.
  The  authority  shall  consist  of  five  members to be appointed by the
  governor, by and with the advice and  consent  of  the  senate.  Of  the
  members  first appointed, one shall serve for a term ending April first,
  nineteen hundred seventy-four; one of such members  shall  serve  for  a
  term ending one year from such date; one of such members shall serve for
  a  term ending two years from such date; one of such members shall serve
  for a term ending three years from such date; and one  of  such  members
  shall  serve  for  a  term  ending  four  years  from  such  date. Their
  successors shall serve for terms of five years each. Each  member  shall
  hold  office  until  his successor has been appointed and qualified. The
  governor shall designate one of the members to be chairman who shall  be
  the chief executive officer of the authority.
    2.  The  chairman  and  the  other  members shall receive compensation
  within the  amounts  made  available  by  appropriation  therefor.  Each
  member,  including  the chairman, shall be entitled to reimbursement for
  his actual and necessary expenses incurred in  the  performance  of  his
  official duties.
    3.  The chairman shall be the chief executive officer of the authority
  and shall  be  responsible  for  the  discharge  of  the  executive  and
  administrative  functions  and  powers of the authority, but he shall be
  empowered to delegate any one or  more  of  such  functions  or  powers,
  including,  without  limitations,  that  of  appointment, discipline and
  removal of officers or employees, to  one  or  more  executive  officers
  appointed by the board.
    4.  The  authority  shall  be  a  "state  agency"  for the purposes of
  sections seventy-three and seventy-four of the public officers law.
    5. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions of this  or  any  other
  law,  general, special or local, no officer or employee of the state, or
  of any public corporation as defined in  the  general  corporation  law,
  shall  be  deemed  to  have  forfeited  or  shall  forfeit his office or
  employment or any benefits provided  under  the  retirement  and  social
  security  law  or  under  any public retirement system maintained by the
  state or any  of  its  subdivisions  by  reason  of  his  acceptance  of
  membership  on  or  chairmanship  of the authority; provided, however, a
  member or chairman who holds such  other  public  office  or  employment
  shall  receive no additional compensation for services rendered pursuant
  to this title, but shall be entitled to reimbursement for his actual and
  necessary expenses incurred in the performance of such services.
    6. The governor may remove any member  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 member shall be
  so  removed,  the governor shall file in the office of the department of
  state a complete statement of charges made against such member, and  his
  findings thereon, together with a complete record of the proceedings.
    7.  The  authority  shall  continue  so long as it shall have bonds or
  other  obligations  outstanding  and  until  its  existence   shall   be
  terminated  by  law.  Upon  the  termination  of  the  existence  of the
  authority, all its rights and properties shall pass to and be vested  in
  the state.
    * NB (Disbanded March, 1980)