New York A 10137: Relates to the name of the Rockland County Solid Waste Authority, subjects such authority to regulation by the department of agriculture and markets

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STATE OF NEW YORK
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10137
IN ASSEMBLY
May 9, 2024
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Zebrowski)
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authori-
ties and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to the name of
the Rockland County Solid Waste Authority, subjecting such authority
to regulation by the department of agriculture and markets, and making
a technical change; and to amend the agriculture and markets law, in
relation to public authorities providing shelter services for the care
of unwanted animals
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 2053-b of the public authorities
2 law, as amended by chapter 553 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 3. "Authority" shall mean the public benefit corporation created by
5 section two thousand fifty-three-c of this title, known as the Rockland
6 county solid waste management authority and shall also hereby be known
7 as Rockland Green .and/or RG Cares
8 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 2053-c of the public authorities law, as
9 amended by chapter 553 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as
10 follows:
11 1. Upon compliance with the requirements of subdivision seven of this
12 section, a corporation known as the Rockland county solid waste manage-
13 ment authority shall be deemed to have been created hereby for the
14 public purposes and charged with the duties and having the powers
15 provided in this title. The authority shall be a body corporate and
16 politic constituting a public benefit corporation. In order to be more
17 consistent with the authority's goals, mission and objectives, the
18 authority shall also be known as Rockland Green .and/or RG Cares
19 § 3. Subdivision 22 of section 2053-e of the public authorities law,
20 as amended by chapter 553 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as
21 follows:
22 22. The authority may acquire, hold, own, lease, establish, construct,
23 effectuate, operate, maintain, renovate, improve, extend or repair any
EXPLANATION--Matter in (underscored) is new; matter in bracketsitalics
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 of its facilities [through, and cause any one or more of its powers,
2 duties, functions or activities to be exercised or performed by, no more
3 ] for thethan one wholly-owned subsidiary corporation of the authority
4 [ ] purposes of operating an animal shelter and providing animalsole
5 management services on behalf of one or more municipalities located in
6 the county of Rockland pursuant to the agriculture and markets law[.
7 Such subsidiary corporation shall be deemed an animal shelter for the
8 purposes of registration, inspection or any oversight required by law or
9 regulation by the department of agriculture and markets. The authority
10 may transfer to or from any such corporation, or between such corpo-
11 rations, any moneys, real property or other property or the services of
12 any officers, employees or consultants for any of the purposes of this
13 title. The directors or members of such subsidiary corporation shall be
14 the same persons holding the offices of members of the authority. Such
15 subsidiary corporation and any of its property, functions and activities
16 shall have all of the privileges, immunities, tax exemptions and other
17 exemptions of the authority and of the authority's property, functions
18 and activities. Such subsidiary corporation shall be subject to the
19 restrictions and limitations to which the authority may be subject. Such
20 subsidiary corporation shall be subject to suit in accordance with
21 section two thousand fifty-three-u this title. The employees of any such
22 subsidiary corporation, except those who are also employees of the
23 ] authority, shall not be deemed employees of the authority and will be
24 subject to regulation by the department of agriculture and markets for
25 the purposes of registration, inspection, and any oversight or regu-
26 .lation
27 § 4. Subdivision 1 of section 2053-g of the public authorities law, as
28 amended by chapter 553 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as
29 follows:
30 1. The authority may fix and collect, on any equitable basis, rates,
31 rentals, fees and other charges for the use of facilities of or services
32 or commodities provided by the authority [ ], includingor any subsidiary
33 the availability of any of the foregoing from the authority. Such rates,
34 rentals, fees and other charges may be fixed and collected from any
35 person to whom such facilities, services or commodities are provided by
36 or made available from the authority, including generators of solid
37 waste and owners of real property upon which solid waste is generated.
38 Such rates, rentals, fees and other charges may be the same or different
39 for e