2006 New York Code - Spring Valley Parking Authority.

 
    §  1599-cc.  Spring  Valley  parking authority. A board to be known as
  "Spring Valley parking authority" is hereby created. Such board shall be
  a body corporate, 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,  who
  shall  be  appointed  by  the  mayor  with  the approval of the board of
  trustees of the village. Of the members first appointed,  one  shall  be
  appointed  for  a period of one year, one for a period of two years, one
  for a period of three years, one for a period of four years, and one for
  a period of five years. At the expiration of such terms,  the  terms  of
  office  of  their  successors  shall  be  five  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 board
  of trustees 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. 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.
    It  is  hereby  determined  and  declared  that  the authority and the
  carrying out of its powers, purposes, and duties are in all respects for
  the benefit of the people of the village of Spring Valley and the  state
  of New York, for the improvement of their health, welfare and prosperity
  and that said purposes are public purposes and that the authority is and
  will be performing an essential governmental function in the exercise of
  the powers conferred upon it by this title.