N.Y. Public Housing Law § 573: Town of Southampton housing authority

§ 573. Town of Southampton housing authority. A municipal housing

authority, to be known as the town of Southampton housing authority, is

hereby created and established for the town of Southampton in the county

of Suffolk for the accomplishment of any or all of the purposes

specified in article eighteen of the constitution of the state of New

York. It shall constitute a body corporate and politic, and consist of

five members. It shall have the powers and duties now or hereafter

conferred by this chapter upon municipal housing authorities. It shall

be organized in the manner prescribed by and subject to the provisions

of this chapter, and the authority, its members, officers and employees

and its operations and activities shall in all respects be governed by

the provisions of this chapter. Such authority shall have perpetual

duration, provided, however, that if at the expiration of ten years

subsequent to the time this section takes effect, there shall be

outstanding no bonds or other obligations of such authority theretofore

issued for any of the purposes authorized in this chapter, then its

corporate existence shall thereupon terminate and such authority shall

thereupon be deemed to be and shall be dissolved. For purposes of

article fifteen-A of the executive law only, the authority shall be

deemed to be a state agency as that term is used in such article, and

its contracts for design, construction services and materials shall be

deemed to be state contracts within the meaning of that term as set

forth in such article.