Section 653. Nassau county bridge authority

A board to be known as "Nassau
  county bridge authority" is hereby created. Such board shall be  a  body
  corporate and politic constituting a public benefit corporation, and its
  existence  shall  commence upon the appointment of the members as herein
  provided. It shall consist of a chairman  and  four  other  members  who
  shall  be  appointed  by  the  county  executive  of the county with the
  approval of the county legislature. The original appointments  shall  be
  made  in  such  manner  that  the term of one member shall expire on the
  December thirty-first next after the appointment of the  board  and  one
  member  on the second December thirty-first after the appointment of the
  board and one member  on  the  third  December  thirty-first  after  the
  appointment  of  the  board.  Their  successors  shall  be appointed one
  annually for terms of five years each from  the  first  day  of  January
  following  the  end  of  the term of his or her predecessor. Each member
  shall continue to serve until the appointment and qualification  of  his
  or  her  successor.  Vacancies in such board occurring otherwise than by
  the expiration of term shall be  filled  for  the  unexpired  term.  The
  members of the board shall choose from their number a vice-chairman. The
  county  executive  may  remove any member of the board for inefficiency,
  neglect of duty or misconduct in office, giving him or her a copy of the
  charges against him or her and an opportunity of being heard in  person,
  or  by  counsel,  in  his  or  her  defense upon not less than ten days'
  notice. The members of the board shall be entitled to such compensation,
  if any, for their services as shall be fixed by ordinance of the  county
  legislature  and shall be entitled to reimbursement for their actual and
  necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties.
  The powers of the authority shall  be  vested  in  and  exercised  by  a
  majority  of  the  members  of  the board then in office. Such board may
  delegate to one or more of its members or to its  officers,  agents  and
  employees  such  powers and duties as it may deem proper. Such board and
  its corporate existence shall continue until March  first  of  the  year
  nineteen  hundred  eighty-five, and thereafter until all its liabilities
  have been met and its notes and bonds have been paid  in  full  or  such
  liabilities  or notes and bonds have otherwise been discharged. Upon its
  ceasing to exist, all its  rights  and  properties  shall  pass  to  the
  county.