Section 583. White Plains urban renewal agency

1. A municipal urban renewal
  agency,  to be known as the White Plains urban renewal agency, is hereby
  established for the accomplishment of any  or  all  of  the  objects  or
  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. Such agency shall constitute a body corporate and politic, and
  shall consist of five members. The  members  of  such  agency  shall  be
  appointed  by  the  mayor of such city who may appoint himself as one of
  such members. Such agency shall be perpetual in duration, except that in
  the event that the certificate to be executed and filed  by  such  mayor
  pursuant  to subdivision one of section five hundred fifty-three of this
  chapter is not filed and approved by the state commissioner  of  housing
  and  community renewal prior to July first, nineteen hundred sixty-five,
  then the corporate existence of such agency  shall  thereupon  terminate
  and such agency shall thereupon be deemed to be and shall be dissolved.
    2.  Such  agency  shall  have  the  powers and duties now or hereafter
  conferred by article fifteen-A of  this  chapter  upon  municipal  urban
  renewal agencies, and shall be organized in the manner prescribed by and
  shall  be  subject  to  the provisions of such article. Such agency, its
  members, officers and  employees  and  its  operations  and  activities,
  shall,  in  all  respects,  be  governed  by  the provisions of articles
  fifteen and fifteen-A of this chapter.