Section 649. New Rochelle urban renewal agency

An urban renewal agency, to
  be known as the New Rochelle urban renewal 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 and be  perpetual  in  duration.
  Its membership shall consist of five members including the mayor and the
  four members of the council of the city of New Rochelle, the mayor to be
  its  chairman.  The  city  manager  shall be its administrative head and
  executive secretary.  It  shall  have  the  powers  and  duties  now  or
  hereafter  conferred by article fifteen-A of this chapter upon municipal
  urban renewal agencies. It shall be organized in the  manner  prescribed
  by  and be subject to the provisions of article fifteen-A of the general
  municipal law 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.