New York Laws
Title 3 - Municipal Assistance Corporation for the City of New York
3034 - Administration of the Corporation.

* § 3034. Administration of the corporation. 1. The corporation shall
be administered by a board of directors, consisting of nine directors,
none of whom shall be officers or employees of the federal government or
of the state or political subdivisions thereof. All of the directors
shall be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the
senate, provided that four of such directors shall be appointed upon
written recommendation of the mayor. Of the directors initially
appointed upon the written recommendation of the mayor, one shall serve
for a term ending December thirty-first, nineteen hundred seventy-six;
one shall serve for a term ending December thirty-first, nineteen
hundred seventy-seven; one shall serve for a term ending December
thirty-first, nineteen hundred seventy-eight; and one shall serve for a
term ending December thirty-first, nineteen hundred seventy-nine. Of the
remaining directors initially appointed by the governor, one shall serve
for a term ending December thirty-first, nineteen hundred seventy-six;
one shall serve for a term ending December thirty-first, nineteen
hundred seventy-seven; one shall serve for a term ending December
thirty-first, nineteen hundred seventy-eight; and two shall serve for a
term ending December thirty-first, nineteen hundred seventy-nine. Each
director shall hold office until his successor has been appointed and
qualified. Thereafter each director appointed by the governor shall
serve a term of four years, except that any director appointed to fill a
vacancy shall serve only until the expiration of his predecessor's term.

2. The speaker and the minority leader of the assembly, the president
pro-tem and the minority leader of the senate, the city board of
estimate acting by majority vote, and the vice-chairman of the city
council, shall each be entitled to appoint a representative to the board
of directors. Each such representative shall be entitled to receive
notice of and to attend all meetings of the board of directors but shall
not be entitled to vote. No representative shall be an employee or
officer of the federal, state or city governments. Each representative
shall serve at the pleasure of the appointing official or body, shall be
eligible for reappointment, and shall hold office until his successor
has been appointed.

3. The corporation shall have the power to make and execute contracts
to pay the expenses of operation of the emergency financial control
board for the city of New York, within the appropriation available
therefor and including the repayment to the state of any advance to such
board under any agreement between the board and the director of the
budget, out of any revenues available to the corporation and not
otherwise pledged except the proceeds of its notes and bonds.

* NB The corporation shall continue for a term ending the later of
July 1, 2008 or one year after its liabilities have been fully paid and
discharged per § 3033 sub 1.