§ 1263. Metropolitan transportation authority. 1. * (a) (1) There is\nhereby created the "metropolitan transportation authority." The\nauthority shall be a body corporate and politic constituting a public\nbenefit corporation. The authority shall consist of a chairperson,\nsixteen other voting members, and two non-voting and four alternate\nnon-voting members, as described in subparagraph two of this paragraph\nappointed by the governor by and with the advice and consent of the\nsenate. Any member appointed to a term commencing on or after June\nthirtieth, two thousand nine shall have experience in one or more of the\nfollowing areas: transportation, public administration, business\nmanagement, finance, accounting, law, engineering, land use, urban and\nregional planning, management of large capital projects, labor\nrelations, or have experience in some other area of activity central to\nthe mission of the authority. Four of the sixteen voting members other\nthan the chairperson shall be appointed on the written recommendation of\nthe mayor of the city of New York; and each of seven other voting\nmembers other than the chairperson shall be appointed after selection\nfrom a written list of three recommendations from the chief executive\nofficer of the county in which the particular member is required to\nreside pursuant to the provisions of this subdivision. Of the members\nappointed on recommendation of the chief executive officer of a county,\none such member shall be, at the time of appointment, a resident of the\ncounty of Nassau, one a resident of the county of Suffolk, one a\nresident of the county of Westchester, one a resident of the county of\nDutchess, one a resident of the county of Orange, one a resident of the\ncounty of Putnam and one a resident of the county of Rockland, provided\nthat the term of any member who is a resident of a county that has\nwithdrawn from the metropolitan commuter transportation district\npursuant to section twelve hundred seventy-nine-b of this title shall\nterminate upon the effective date of such county's withdrawal from such\ndistrict. Of the five voting members, other than the chairperson,\nappointed by the governor without recommendation from any other person,\nthree shall be, at the time of appointment, residents of the city of New\nYork and two shall be, at the time of appointment, residents of such\ncity or of any of the aforementioned counties in the metropolitan\ncommuter transportation district. Provided however, notwithstanding the\nforegoing residency requirement, one of the five voting members\nappointed by the governor without recommendation from any other person,\nother than the chairperson, may be the director of the New York state\ndivision of the budget, and provided further that, in the event of such\nappointment, the budget director's membership in the authority shall be\ndeemed ex-officio. Provided further, one of the twelve voting members,\nother than the chairperson, appointed by the governor without\nrecommendation by any other person, or on the recommendation of the\nmayor of the city of New York, or of the chief executive officer of the\ncounties of Westchester, Nassau, or Suffolk shall be a transit dependent\nindividual. A "transit dependent individual" shall mean an individual\nwho is limited to public transit as their primary mode of transportation\nbecause the individual has a permanent disability, provided that any\nlocal or statewide transit advocacy organization may recommend one or\nmore transit dependent individuals to be considered for appointment\npursuant to this section. The chairperson and each of the members shall\nbe appointed for a term of six years, provided however, that the\nchairperson first appointed shall serve for a term ending June\nthirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty-one, provided that thirty days after\nthe effective date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand nine which\namended this subparagraph, the term of the chairperson shall
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