Section 1903. Historic Rome Development Authority

A corporation to be known
  as  the  " Historic Rome Development Authority" is hereby created.  Such
  corporation 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 six  other  members,  all  of  whom
  shall be appointed by the mayor of the city. In no event shall more than
  four  members of the board including the chairman be members of the same
  political party. The appointment of the chairman shall be for a term  of
  three  years, and of the other six members for terms of one year and two
  years, respectively, as the mayor decides from the  first  day  of  July
  nineteen  hundred  sixty-six. At the expiration of such terms, the terms
  of office of their successors shall be three years.  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  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, such hearings to  be  held  by  the
  mayor. 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.