2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 8 - New York Job Development Authority Subtitle I General Provisions › Sub Title 1 - Subtitle I General Provisions › 1802 - New York Job Development Authority.

§ 1802. New York job development authority. 1. There is hereby created
  the  "New York job development authority." The authority shall be a body
  corporate and politic constituting a  public  benefit  corporation.  Its
  members  shall  consist of the commissioner of economic development, the
  commissioner of labor, the commissioner of agriculture and markets,  and
  the  superintendent of financial services, serving ex officio, and seven
  members to be appointed by the governor with the advice and  consent  of
  the  senate. Each member appointed by the governor shall be a citizen of
  the United States and a resident of the state.
1-a. The commissioner of economic  development,  the  commissioner  of
  labor,   the   commissioner   of   agriculture   and  markets,  and  the
  superintendent of financial services each may designate  a  person  from
  his  department  to  represent him at all meetings of the authority from
  which such member may be absent. Any representative so designated  shall
  have  the  power  to  attend and to vote at any meeting of the authority
  from which the member so designating him is absent, with the same  force
  and  effect  as  if  the member designating him were present and voting.
  Such designation shall be by written  notice  to  the  chairman  by  the
  member  making  the  designation.  Such  designation shall not limit the
  power of the member making the designation to attend and vote in  person
  at any meeting of the authority.
2.  Members  shall  continue  in  office until the expiration of their
  terms and until their successors  have  been  appointed  and  confirmed.
  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 governor shall appoint a successor with  the  advice  and
  consent of the senate to serve for the balance of the unexpired term.
3.  The  members  of the authority shall serve without salary or other
  compensation, but each member shall be  entitled  to  reimbursement  for
  actual  and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of his or her
  official duties.
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 shall be "officers" of the agency for the purposes of
  said sections. In addition, the authority may adopt such  standards  and
  procedures  as  it  considers  necessary  to  ensure compliance with the
  provisions of sections seventy-three  and  seventy-four  of  the  public
  officers law.
5.  Notwithstanding  any  inconsistent  provisions  of  law,  general,
  special or local, no officer or employee of the state, or of  any  civil
  division thereof, shall be deemed to have forfeited or shall forfeit his
  office  or  employment  by reason of his acceptance of membership on the
  authority created by this section, provided, however, that a member  who
  holds such other public office or employment shall receive no additional
  compensation  or allowance 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 such member
  shall be  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 commissioner of economic development shall be the  chairman  of
  the  authority  and 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
  commissioner of economic development and shall have such other duties as
  the authority may direct.
8.  Six  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 the granting of mortgage loans
  shall  be  approved  by  not less than six members of the authority 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-a. Determination on mortgage loan applications. The chairman of  the
  authority  shall convene meetings for the transaction of business or the
  exercise of any power or function of the authority at regular intervals,
  and whenever  prudent  and  practical,  the  authority  shall  render  a
  determination  on  an  application  for  a  mortgage loan and notify the
  applicant of the determination within four weeks of the receipt of  such
  completed  application.  In  the  event  that  a determination cannot be
  reached within the four week period, the authority shall submit  to  the
  applicant a statement of the reasons for such delay upon or prior to the
  expiration of such four week period.
9.  The authority may appoint such persons to serve as officers of the
  authority as it may deem advisable, including a president 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.
10.  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.