Section 591. Membership, quorum, removal, funds and accounts, and eminent domain taking

Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or  local law, or any other provision of this chapter:
    1. No public officer or employee shall be ineligible  for  appointment
  as  a member of the board, and any public officer or employee may accept
  such appointment and serve as such  member  without  forfeiture  of  any
  other public office or position of public employment by reason thereof;
    2.  A  majority  of the whole number of the members of the board shall
  constitute a quorum at a meeting duly held at a time fixed by law or  by
  any  by-law  duly  adopted  by  such  board, or as fixed at any previous
  meeting duly held, or at any meeting duly held upon reasonable notice to
  all of the members of such board, or at any duly  adjourned  meeting  of
  any  such  meeting,  and not less than a majority of the whole number of
  the members of such board may perform and exercise the powers authorized
  and provided in this title,  and  the  words  "whole  number"  shall  be
  construed  to  mean  the  total  number which such board would have were
  there no vacancies and  were  none  of  the  members  disqualified  from
  acting,  and  shall  mean  either five or seven, depending only upon the
  circumstances set forth in section five hundred seventy-seven;
    3. Every member of the board shall be removable by the chairman of the
  board  of  supervisors,  with  the  consent  of  the  supervisors,   for
  inefficiency,  neglect  of  duty,  or  misconduct  in  office, provided,
  however, that such member shall be given a copy of the  charges  against
  him  and  an opportunity of being heard in person, or by counsel, in his
  defense upon not less than ten days' notice;
    4. The authority is empowered to establish such funds and accounts  as
  it  may  deem  necessary subject to such agreements as it shall conclude
  with the holders of its bonds or notes or other obligations;
    5. When real property of the authority is taken in the exercise of the
  power of  eminent  domain,  just  compensation  shall  be  made  to  the
  authority in the same manner, to the same extent and subject to the same
  limitations as though it were private property.