Section 878. Genesee Valley Regional Market Authority

1. A board to be
  known as the  "Genesee  Valley  Regional  Market  Authority"  is  hereby
  created.  Such board shall be a body corporate and politic, constituting
  a public benefit corporation.
    2. The board shall consist of fifteen members, as follows:
    (a) The commissioner of agriculture and markets, or his representative
  designated in writing by him, shall be a member ex officio.
    (b) The county legislative body  of  each  county  shall  appoint  the
  number  of  members  as  follows,  who shall be residents of the county:
  Monroe county, three members; Livingston county,  two  members;  Ontario
  county, two members; Wayne county, two members who shall be residents of
  that  part  of  Wayne  county  lying  west  of the new pre-emption line;
  Genesee county, one member; Orleans county, one member; Steuben  county,
  one member; Wyoming county, one member; and Yates county, one member.
    3.  One  member of the board from each county may be either a producer
  or non-producer  of  agricultural  products;  other  members  from  each
  county,  if  any,  shall  be  persons  engaged in farming and deriving a
  greater part of their income  therefrom;  provided,  however,  that  all
  persons  appointed  as  members  of  the board after May first, nineteen
  hundred sixty-one, shall  be  producers  of  agricultural  products  who
  actually sell all or part of their produce at regional market facilities
  maintained and operated by the Genesee Valley Regional Market Authority.
    4.  A member of the board shall continue in office during the pleasure
  of the body appointing him or her. Any vacancy which may occur by reason
  of the death, disqualification, resignation or removal of a member shall
  be filled by the body which appointed such member. Each  member  of  the
  board  shall,  before  entering  upon  the  duties  of  office, take the
  constitutional oath of office and file the same in  the  office  of  the
  secretary  of  state.  Any  member  may  be  removed by the governor for
  inefficiency, neglect of duty or misconduct in office, after  a  hearing
  upon charges and an opportunity to be heard in person or by counsel upon
  not  less  than  ten  days'  notice.  The members of the board shall not
  receive a salary  or  other  compensation,  but  shall  be  paid  actual
  expenses  incurred  in  attending  meetings  of  the board and executive
  committee and in performing committee  work  assigned  to  them  by  the
  board,  and shall be reimbursed for travel expenses at the per mile rate
  allowed state employees for use of personal vehicles.  The powers of the
  authority shall be  vested  in  and  exercised  by  the  board  and  the
  provisions  of  section  forty-one of the general construction law shall
  apply; provided that the 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.
    5. At the first meeting of the board,  the  board  shall  choose  from
  their  number  a  chairman,  vice-chairman, secretary, and treasurer who
  shall serve during the pleasure of the board. Before entering  upon  the
  duties  of  his  office the treasurer shall execute to the authority and
  file with the secretary of the authority a bond in  such  sum  and  with
  such  sureties  as  the board shall direct and approve. The board may at
  any time require the treasurer to file a new bond for such sum and  with
  such sureties as the board shall approve. In the event the surety on any
  such  bond  is  a  surety company authorized to transact business in the
  state of New York the expense of procuring such  surety,  not  exceeding
  one per centum per annum upon the sum for which the bond is given, shall
  be a charge against the authority.