Section 574. Village of Elbridge housing authority

A municipal housing
  authority, to be known as the Village of Elbridge housing authority,  is
  hereby created and established for the village of Elbridge in the county
  of  Onondaga  for  the  accomplishment  of  any  or  all of the purposes
  specified in article eighteen of the constitution of the  state  of  New
  York.  It shall constitute a body corporate and politic, be perpetual in
  duration and consist of at least three members and not more  than  seven
  members.  It shall have the powers and duties now or hereafter conferred
  by  this  chapter  upon  municipal  housing  authorities.  It  shall  be
  organized  in  the manner prescribed by and subject to the provisions of
  this chapter, and the authority, its members, officers and employees and
  its operations and activities shall in all respects be governed  by  the
  provisions  of  this  chapter.  For purposes of article fifteen-A of the
  executive law, the authority shall be deemed a state agency as that term
  is used in such article, and its  contracts  for  design,  construction,
  services  and  materials  shall  be  deemed  state  contracts within the
  meaning of that term as set forth in such article.