Section 1840-B. Organization of Long Island job development authority

1.
  There is hereby created the "Long  Island  job  development  authority."
  The  authority  shall  be  a  body  corporate and politic constituting a
  public benefit corporation. Its members shall consist  of  four  members
  appointed  by  the  board  of supervisors of Nassau county, four members
  appointed by the county legislature of Suffolk county and one  appointed
  by the Long Island regional planning board.
    2.  Members  shall  continue  in  office until the expiration of their
  terms and until their successors have been appointed. Persons  appointed
  for  full  terms  as  their  successors  shall serve for four years each
  commencing as of January first. In the event of a vacancy  occurring  in
  the  office  of  a  member  by  death,  resignation  or  otherwise,  the
  appointing authority which chose said member shall select  a  person  to
  serve for the balance of the unexpired term.
    3.  The  members of the authority shall serve without salary, but each
  member shall be entitled to reimbursement for his actual  and  necessary
  expenses incurred in the performance of his official duties and to a fee
  of  fifty dollars per day when rendering service as such member provided
  that the aggregate of such fees to any one member in any one fiscal year
  shall not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars.
    4. The members of the authority may engage in private  employment,  or
  in  a  profession  or  business, subject to the limitations contained in
  sections seventy-three and seventy-four of the public officers law.  The
  authority shall, for the purposes of such sections, be a "state agency",
  and  such  members and the employees of the authority shall be "officers
  and employees" of the agency for the purposes of said sections.
    5. The county legislature or  board  of  supervisors  or  Long  Island
  regional  planning  board  may  remove  any  member  appointed by it for
  inefficiency, neglect of duty or misconduct in office after giving him a
  copy of the charges against him, and an  opportunity  to  be  heard,  in
  person  or  by  counsel,  in  his  defense,  upon not less than ten days
  notice. If any such member shall be removed, the chairman shall file  in
  the office of the authority a complete statement of charges made against
  such  member,  and his findings thereon, together with a complete record
  of the proceedings.
    6. The members  of  the  authority  once  selected  shall  choose  the
  chairman  of  the  authority for one or more terms of one year each, who
  shall preside over all meetings of the authority  and  shall  have  such
  other duties as the authority may direct. A vice-chairman may be elected
  by  the  authority from among its other members for one or more terms of
  one year each. The vice-chairman shall preside over all meetings of  the
  authority  in  the  absence  of  the  chairman and shall have such other
  duties as the authority may direct.
    7. Five members of the authority shall constitute  a  quorum  for  the
  transaction  of any business or the exercise of any power or function of
  the authority. Resolutions authorizing the issuance of bonds or notes of
  the authority and resolutions authorizing any loan, lease, sale or other
  agreement in respect to a project shall be approved  by  not  less  than
  five  members  of the authority and with the approval of at least one of
  the members appointed by the board of supervisors and at  least  one  of
  the members appointed by the county legislature at a meeting duly called
  for  such  purpose, but for the transaction of any other business or the
  performance of any  other  power  or  function  of  the  authority,  the
  authority may act by a majority of the members present at any meeting at
  which a quorum is in attendance.
    8.  The authority may appoint such persons to serve as officers of the
  authority as it may deem advisable, including an executive director  and
  a  counsel,  and such employees as it deems advisable, and may prescribe

  their duties and fix their compensation, subject to  the  civil  service
  law and the rules and regulations of the civil service commission of the
  state.
    9.   The  authority  may  appoint  one  or  more  advisory  committees
  consisting of not more than seven members each to  consider  and  advise
  the authority upon all matters submitted to them by the authority and to
  recommend  to  the  authority such changes in the administration of this
  title and the operations of the authority as the advisory committee  may
  deem  desirable.  Members  of  advisory  committees  shall serve without
  salary for such terms, not to exceed four years, as  the  authority  may
  determine.  Each  member  of  an advisory committee shall be entitled to
  reimbursement for his actual and necessary travel expenses  incurred  in
  the performance of his duties.