Section 2053. Broome county sports center authority  


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  • A board to be known
      as "Broome county sports center authority" is hereby created. The  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, all of whom shall be appointed by the  local  legislative
      body of Broome county. The appointment of a chairman shall be for a term
      of  six  years,  and  of  the  other four members, two for a term of two
      years, and two for a term of four years, respectively,  from  the  first
      day  of  September,  nineteen  hundred sixty-eight. At the expiration of
      such terms the terms of office of their successors shall be  six  years.
      Each   member   shall  continue  to  serve  until  the  appointment  and
      qualification of  his  successor.  Vacancies  in  such  board  occurring
      otherwise  than  by expiration of term shall be filled for the unexpired
      term. The members of the board shall choose from  their  number  a  vice
      chairman.  The  local  legislative  body of Broome county 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.  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.
      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.  The
      board,  and its corporate existence, shall continue only for a period of
      nine years, 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, except that no additional liabilities may  be
      incurred  after  the  termination  of  its corporate existence. Upon its
      ceasing to exist, all its rights and property shall pass to the County.
        * NB Authority dissolved September 1, 1977