Section 127. Appointment and terms of office of managers

1. Except as
  provided in subdivision two, when a governing board of a  county,  town,
  city  or  village  shall  have  determined to establish a public general
  hospital  for  the  care  and  treatment  of  the  sick,  the  board  of
  supervisors  of the county, the supervisor of the town, the mayor of the
  city or the president of the board of  trustees  of  the  village  shall
  appoint  not  less  than  five and not more than fifteen citizens of the
  county, town, city or village,  respectively,  who  shall  constitute  a
  board  of  managers  of  the  said  hospital. The term of office of each
  member of said board shall be five years, and the term of  one  of  such
  managers  shall  expire annually; the first appointments, however, being
  made for the respective terms of five, four, three, two and  one  years.
  Appointments  of  successors  shall  be for the full term of five years,
  except that the appointment of a person to fill a vacancy  occurring  by
  death, resignation or cause other than the expiration of a term shall be
  made for the unexpired term.
    2.  When the board of supervisors of any county having a population of
  more than six hundred thousand but less  than  one  million  shall  have
  determined  to  establish  a  public  general  hospital for the care and
  treatment of the sick, the board of supervisors  of  such  county  shall
  appoint  seven  citizens  of  the county who shall constitute a board of
  managers of such hospital. The members of  such  board  first  appointed
  shall be appointed for terms of office as follows: one for a term of one
  year,  two  for  terms of two years each, one for a term of three years,
  two for terms of four years each, and one for  a  term  of  five  years.
  Their  successors  shall  be  appointed  for  terms  of five years each.
  Vacancies occurring by  death,  resignation  or  cause  other  than  the
  expiration  of  a  term shall be made for the remainder of the unexpired
  term.
    3. Failure of any manager to attend three consecutive meetings of  the
  board  shall  cause  a  vacancy  in  his  office, unless said absence is
  excused by formal action of the board of managers.  The  managers  shall
  receive  no  compensation for their services, but shall be allowed their
  actual and necessary traveling and other expenses, to be audited by  the
  governing  board,  and  paid in the same manner as the other expenses of
  the hospital. Any manager may be removed from office at any time by  the
  appointing  authority  after  having  received  notice in writing of the
  cause of the proposed removal and  after  an  opportunity  to  be  heard
  thereon.  Unless  a  treasurer  for  the hospital is appointed as herein
  provided the treasurer of the county, town, city or village by which the
  hospital is maintained shall be treasurer of the hospital.