N.Y. General Municipal Law § 623: Albany community development agency

§ 623. Albany community development agency. A community development

agency, to be known as the Albany 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, notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of

section five hundred fifty-three of this chapter, of seven members,

including the mayor, who shall be chairman, the chief fiscal officer,

the corporation counsel, the president of the common council, or other

presiding officer thereof, the director of community development who

shall also serve as secretary of said agency, the clerk of the city, and

the director of the office of equal employment opportunity for the city

of Albany, all of whose terms shall expire with the term of the mayor.

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.