2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 4 - Market Authorities › Title 4 - Genesee Valley Regional Market Authority › 878 - Genesee Valley Regional Market Authority.

§  878.  Genesee  Valley  Regional  Market Authority. 1. A board to be
known as the  "Genesee  Valley  Regional  Market  Authority"  is  hereby
created.  Such board shall be a body corporate and politic, constituting
a public benefit corporation.
2. The board shall consist of fifteen members, as follows:
(a) The commissioner of agriculture and markets, or his representative
designated in writing by him, shall be a member ex officio.
(b) The county legislative body  of  each  county  shall  appoint  the
number  of  members  as  follows,  who shall be residents of the county:
Monroe county, three members; Livingston county,  two  members;  Ontario
county, two members; Wayne county, two members who shall be residents of
that  part  of  Wayne  county  lying  west  of the new pre-emption line;
Genesee county, one member; Orleans county, one member; Steuben  county,
one member; Wyoming county, one member; and Yates county, one member.
3.  One  member of the board from each county may be either a producer
or non-producer  of  agricultural  products;  other  members  from  each
county,  if  any,  shall  be  persons  engaged in farming and deriving a
greater part of their income  therefrom;  provided,  however,  that  all
persons  appointed  as  members  of  the board after May first, nineteen
hundred sixty-one, shall  be  producers  of  agricultural  products  who
actually sell all or part of their produce at regional market facilities
maintained and operated by the Genesee Valley Regional Market Authority.
4.  A member of the board shall continue in office during the pleasure
of the body appointing him or her. Any vacancy which may occur by reason
of the death, disqualification, resignation or removal of a member shall
be filled by the body which appointed such member. Each  member  of  the
board  shall,  before  entering  upon  the  duties  of  office, take the
constitutional oath of office and file the same in  the  office  of  the
secretary  of  state.  Any  member  may  be  removed by the governor for
inefficiency, neglect of duty or misconduct in office, after  a  hearing
upon charges and an opportunity to be heard in person or by counsel upon
not  less  than  ten  days'  notice.  The members of the board shall not
receive a salary  or  other  compensation,  but  shall  be  paid  actual
expenses  incurred  in  attending  meetings  of  the board and executive
committee and in performing committee  work  assigned  to  them  by  the
board,  and shall be reimbursed for travel expenses at the per mile rate
allowed state employees for use of personal vehicles.  The powers of the
authority shall be  vested  in  and  exercised  by  the  board  and  the
provisions  of  section  forty-one of the general construction law shall
apply; provided that the 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.
5. At the first meeting of the board,  the  board  shall  choose  from
their  number  a  chairman,  vice-chairman, secretary, and treasurer who
shall serve during the pleasure of the board. Before entering  upon  the
duties  of  his  office the treasurer shall execute to the authority and
file with the secretary of the authority a bond in  such  sum  and  with
such  sureties  as  the board shall direct and approve. The board may at
any time require the treasurer to file a new bond for such sum and  with
such sureties as the board shall approve. In the event the surety on any
such  bond  is  a  surety company authorized to transact business in the
state of New York the expense of procuring such  surety,  not  exceeding
one per centum per annum upon the sum for which the bond is given, shall
be a charge against the authority.
6.  In  fulfilling  the  authority's  mission,  the  board  shall work
cooperatively and in consultation with the department of agriculture and
markets to assure the proper development  of  agriculture  and  regional
market  facilities,  in the Genesee Valley Regional Market District. The

board and the  department  of  agriculture  and  markets  shall  jointly
develop  a  plan for the future development and viability of agriculture
and regional market facilities in the district. Such plan shall  include
both short term and long term goals and objectives as well as actual and
projected  revenues  and expenditures. Such plan shall annually allocate
no less than seventy-five percent of the authority's available funds for
the creation, development, and enhancement of agriculture  and  regional
market  facilities,  in  the district. For purposes of this subdivision,
available funds shall mean the net amount available after  contractually
obligated expenditures are subtracted from, but not be limited to, cash,
cash   equivalents,  certificates  of  deposit,  and  other  receivables
available. The board and department shall meet  annually  prior  to  the
close  of  the  authority's fiscal year to evaluate the effectiveness of
the use of funds for that fiscal year, review the goals  and  objectives
of  the  plan,  and  properly prepare for the allocation and use of such
funds for the next fiscal year. The plan shall be  updated  annually  to
make  appropriate  modifications  to such plan for the next fiscal year.
Prior to  any  such  funds  being  expended,  both  the  board  and  the
department  must  approve such plan, its goals and objectives as well as
the projected revenues and proposed allocations.
The Genesee Valley Regional Market Authority shall furnish  an  annual
real  estate  report  detailing  all  real  estate holdings and detailed
property  information,  including  but  not  limited  to  the   tenants,
important  lease terms, rents, durations of leases, as well as copies of
each lease. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the  contrary,
the  Genesee Valley Regional Market Authority shall furnish all required
reports, audits, and reviews, including the annual real  estate  report,
to all parties enumerated in paragraph (a) of subdivision one of section
twenty-eight  hundred  of  this  chapter as well as to the department of
agriculture and markets, within ninety days after the end of its  fiscal
year.