Some articles on public, public benefit corporations, corporations:
... The New York State Public Authorities Control Board is composed of five members, appointed by the Governor, some upon the recommendation of members of the Legislature ... New York's public services are heavily organized into public benefit corporations known frequently as authorities or development corporations ... New York State-chartered public benefit corporations exist all over the state, but the most famous examples are probably in New York City (the Metropolitan Transportation Authority ...
... The New York State Comptroller's Office lists four types of public benefit corporations and authorities Class A — these authorities and public benefit corporations ... Class D — these authorities and public benefit corporations have interstate or international jurisdiction ...
... Public benefit corporations in New York operate like quasi-private corporations, generally with boards appointed by elected officials ... in one sense but, unlike government agencies, public benefit corporations are exempt from some regulations ... Public benefit corporations get charters from New York and are usually designed to perform a specific, narrow function in the public interest ...
Famous quotes containing the words corporations, public and/or benefit:
“Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges ... which are employed altogether for their benefit.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“You say that you do not succeed much. Does it concern you enough that you do not? Do you work hard enough at it? Do you get the benefit of discipline out of it? If so persevere. Is it a more serious thing than to walk a thousand miles in a thousand successive hours? Do you get any corns by it? Do you ever think of hanging yourself on account of failure?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)