N.Y. General Municipal Law § 616: Utica urban renewal agency

§ 616. Utica urban renewal agency. An urban renewal agency, to be

known as the Utica urban renewal agency, is hereby established for the

accomplishment of any or all of the purposes specified in articles

fifteen and fifteen-A of the 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, including the mayor, who shall be chair, the

city engineer, the chair of the city planning board, all of whose terms

shall expire with the term of the mayor, two citizen electors, appointed

by and to serve at the pleasure of the mayor and two members of the

common council, appointed by the council, who shall not be of the same

political party and each of whom shall serve until the expiration of

their term of office as council member. The treasurer of the agency

shall be the comptroller who shall not be a member of the agency. It

shall have the powers and duties now or hereafter covered by article

fifteen-A of this chapter upon municipal renewal agencies. It shall 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 covered by the provisions of such article.