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                                  7990

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 3, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Libraries and Education Technology

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  New  York  city  charter, in relation to public
  libraries; and to amend the public officers law, in  relation  to  the
  definition of agency

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 2601 of the New York city charter,
as added by  a vote of the people of the city of New York at the general
election held in November of 1988, is amended to read as follows:
  2. "Agency" means a city, county, borough or other  office,  position,
administration, department, division, bureau, board, commission, author-
ity,  corporation, advisory committee or other agency of government, the
expenses of which are paid in whole or in part from the  city  treasury,
and  shall  include  but  not be limited to, the council, the offices of
each elected official, the board of education, community school  boards,
community  boards,  the  financial  services corporation, the health and
hospitals corporation, the public development corporation, and  the  New
York  city  housing  authority,  but  shall not include any court or any
corporation or institution maintaining or operating a [public  library,]
museum,  botanical garden, arboretum, tomb, memorial building, aquarium,
zoological garden or similar facility.
  S 2. Subdivision 19 of section 2601 of the New York city  charter,  as
added  by  a  vote  of the people of the city of New York at the general
election held in November of 1988, is amended to read as follows:
  19. "Public servant" means all officials, officers  and  employees  of
the  city, including members of community boards [and], members of advi-
sory committees, except unpaid members of advisory committees [shall not
be public servants], AND ALL EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS AND KEY LIBRARY  EXECU-
TIVE  PERSONNEL FROM THE BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY AND THE NEW YORK PUBLIC
LIBRARY.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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  S 3. Subdivision 3 of section 86 of the public officers law, as  added
by chapter 933 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as follows:
  3. "Agency" means:
  A. any state or municipal department, board, bureau, division, commis-
sion,  committee,  public authority, public corporation, council, office
or other governmental entity performing a  governmental  or  proprietary
function for the state or any one or more municipalities thereof, except
the judiciary or the state legislature[.]; AND
  B. THE BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY AND THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY.
  S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.