Section 605. Yonkers community development agency

A municipal urban
  renewal agency, to be known as the Yonkers 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 of seven members:  the  mayor  of  the  city  of
  Yonkers  who  shall  be  its  chairman,  the city council president, the
  planning director of the city, the corporation counsel of the city,  the
  city  comptroller  and  two  residents  of the city who are neither city
  officials nor city employees and who shall be  appointed  by  the  mayor
  with  the  advice  and consent of the city council. The two residents of
  the city who are first appointed shall be designated to serve for  terms
  of two and four years, respectively, from the date of their appointment.
  Thereafter their term of office shall be four years. An appointed member
  shall  continue  to hold office until his successor is appointed and has
  qualified. The agency shall have the powers and duties now or  hereafter
  conferred  by  article  fifteen-A of this chapter upon municipal renewal
  agencies. It shall otherwise 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 governed by the provisions of
  such article.