N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 2053: Broome county sports center authority

* § 2053. Broome county sports center authority. A board to be known

as "Broome county sports center authority" is hereby created. The board

shall be a body corporate and politic constituting a public benefit

corporation, and its existence shall commence upon the appointment of

the members as herein provided. It shall consist of a chairman and four

other members, all of whom shall be appointed by the local legislative

body of Broome county. The appointment of a chairman shall be for a term

of six years, and of the other four members, two for a term of two

years, and two for a term of four years, respectively, from the first

day of September, nineteen hundred sixty-eight. At the expiration of

such terms the terms of office of their successors shall be six years.

Each member shall continue to serve until the appointment and

qualification of his successor. Vacancies in such board occurring

otherwise than by expiration of term shall be filled for the unexpired

term. The members of the board shall choose from their number a vice

chairman. The local legislative body of Broome county may remove any

member of the board for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or misconduct in

office, giving him a copy of the charges against him and an opportunity

of being heard in person, or by counsel, in his defense upon not less

than ten days' notice. Members of the board shall be entitled to no

compensation for their services, but shall be entitled to reimbursement

for their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of

their official duties. The powers of the authority shall be vested in

and exercised by a majority of the members of the board then in office.

The board may delegate to one or more of its members or to its officers,

agents and employees such powers and duties as it may deem proper. The

board, and its corporate existence, shall continue only for a period of

nine years, and thereafter until all its liabilities have been met and

its bonds have been paid in full or such liabilities or bonds have

otherwise been discharged, except that no additional liabilities may be

incurred after the termination of its corporate existence. Upon its

ceasing to exist, all its rights and property shall pass to the County.

* NB Authority dissolved September 1, 1977