Section 1762. Salamanca hospital district authority

1. A board to be known
  as the "Salamanca hospital district authority" is hereby created for the
  purpose of creating and operating  a  public  general  hospital  in  the
  hospital district to be organized as herein set forth.  Such board shall
  be   a   body  corporate  and  politic  constituting  a  public  benefit
  corporation.  The  authority  and  its  corporate  existence  shall   be
  perpetual.
    2.  The authority shall become effective and the district organized on
  the first day of January, nineteen hundred fifty-nine.  If  the  minimum
  number  of municipalities do not approve its formation in earlier years,
  it shall become effective and the district organized on the first day of
  January, nineteen hundred sixty or nineteen hundred sixty-one.
    3. The authority shall consist of seven representatives of the city of
  Salamanca and one for each of the towns  which  become  members  of  the
  authority.  Seven of the members shall be representatives of the city of
  Salamanca and shall be appointed by the mayor, subject  to  approval  of
  the  common  council. One member shall be appointed to represent each of
  the participating towns, and each town representative shall be appointed
  by its respective town board.
    4. The first members shall be appointed for the city of Salamanca  for
  the  following  terms  from  the  first day of January, nineteen hundred
  fifty-nine as follows: Two for a term of one year, two for a term of two
  years, one for a term of three years, one for a term of four  years  and
  one  for  a term of five years. The first members shall be appointed for
  the towns for terms beginning on the  first  day  of  January,  nineteen
  hundred  fifty-nine  or on the first day of January of the following two
  years when participation of said towns is effective as may be  fixed  in
  the  agreement  to  be entered into by the participating municipalities.
  The initial representatives of the towns shall serve for terms as  fixed
  in said agreement.
    5.  Subsequent  appointments of each city or town representative shall
  be made in the same manner as above set forth and for  a  term  of  five
  years.
    6.  All  members  shall continue to hold office until their successors
  are appointed and qualified. The resignation of  any  members  shall  be
  filed  with  the  appointing  authority  and  shall be effective when so
  filed.   Vacancies occurring otherwise than by  expiration  of  term  of
  office, shall be filled for the unexpired term.
    7.  Members  of  the  board  may  be  removed from office for the same
  reasons and in the same manner as may be provided by law for the removal
  of officers  of  a  city,  respecting  the  members  from  the  city  of
  Salamanca, or as may be provided by law for the removal of officers of a
  town, respecting the members from the towns.
    8.  The  members shall receive no compensation for their services, but
  may be reimbursed for their actual and necessary  expenses  incurred  in
  connection  with  the  performance  of  their  official  duties  if  the
  authority shall so provide by resolution for such cases.
    9. The powers of the authority shall be vested in and exercised by the
  members as heretofore set forth and the authority formed  at  a  meeting
  called  for  said  purpose  by  the  chairman  of  the existing board of
  managers of the Salamanca hospital district as soon as convenient  after
  the  approving  vote of the minimum number of municipalities required to
  organize the authority.
    10. Seven members of the authority shall constitute a quorum necessary
  to constitute a legal meeting and to do business. A majority vote of the
  members present shall be necessary to constitute favorable action at any
  meeting.

    11. Oaths of office of all members of the  authority  shall  be  filed
  with the Cattaraugus county clerk.
    12.  All  changes  in  the  officers and members of the board shall be
  contained in the minute book of the board.