N.Y. General Municipal Law § 605: Yonkers community development agency

§ 605. Yonkers community development agency. A municipal urban

renewal agency, to be known as the Yonkers community development agency,

is hereby established for the accomplishment of any or all of the

purposes specified in articles fifteen and fifteen-A of this chapter and

in accordance with article eighteen of the constitution of the state of

New York. It shall constitute a body corporate and politic, be perpetual

in duration and consist of seven members: the mayor of the city of

Yonkers who shall be its chairman, the city council president, the

planning director of the city, the corporation counsel of the city, the

city comptroller and two residents of the city who are neither city

officials nor city employees and who shall be appointed by the mayor

with the advice and consent of the city council. The two residents of

the city who are first appointed shall be designated to serve for terms

of two and four years, respectively, from the date of their appointment.

Thereafter their term of office shall be four years. An appointed member

shall continue to hold office until his successor is appointed and has

qualified. The agency shall have the powers and duties now or hereafter

conferred by article fifteen-A of this chapter upon municipal renewal

agencies. It shall otherwise be organized in the manner prescribed by

and be subject to the provisions of article fifteen-A of this chapter

and the agency, its members, officers and employees and its operations

and activities shall in all respects be governed by the provisions of

such article.