Section 1596-C. City of Yonkers parking authority  


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  • A board to be known as
      "City of Yonkers parking 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,
      appointed by the mayor of the city of Yonkers, and four  other  members,
      who  shall  also  be  appointed  by  the  mayor.  The appointment of the
      chairman shall be for a term of five years and  of  each  of  the  other
      members  for  terms of one, two, three and four years from the first day
      of April, nineteen hundred sixty-four. At the expiration of such  terms,
      the  terms of office of their successors shall be five years so that the
      term of office  of  one-fifth  of  such  members  shall  expire  on  the
      thirty-first  day  of  March in each year. Each member shall continue to
      serve  until  the  appointment  and  qualification  of  his   successor.
      Vacancies  in  such  board occurring otherwise than by the expiration of
      such term, shall be filled for the unexpired term. The  members  of  the
      board  shall  choose  from  their  number a vice-chairman. The mayor may
      remove any member of the board for  inefficiency,  neglect  of  duty  or
      misconduct  in  office, giving him 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. The members of the board shall be
      entitled to no compensation for their services but 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 only
      to the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred  ninety-nine,  and
      thereafter  until  all  its liabilities have been met and its bonds have
      been paid in full or such  liabilities  or  bonds  have  otherwise  been
      discharged.  Upon  its  ceasing  to exist, all its rights and properties
      shall pass to the city.