2006 New York Code - Separate Boards Of Commissioners.

 
    § 3-308 Separate boards of commissioners. 1. The board of trustees may
  establish or abolish a board or boards of fire, ambulance, water, light,
  sewer, park or cemetery commissioners or a single municipal board having
  the  powers,  duties  and  responsibilities of two or more such separate
  boards.
    2. The board of trustees may also  establish  or  abolish  a  separate
  board of police commissioners.
    3.  The  board  of  trustees  shall establish the composition, powers,
  duties and responsibilities of each board of commissioners and may, from
  time to time, amend same.
    4. Any board established hereunder shall be composed of not less  than
  three members, who shall perform their duties subject to the approval of
  the board of trustees.
    5.  The mayor, subject to the approval of the board of trustees, shall
  appoint the  members  of  any  board  of  commissioners  and  the  first
  appointments  of  members  thereto  shall  be for terms so fixed that at
  least one will expire at the end of each official year commencing at the
  end of the current such year and continuing in succeeding year until the
  entire original appointments run out. No such  term  shall  exceed  five
  years.
    6.   Commencing   with   the   first   annual  meeting  following  the
  establishment of any such board,  and  continuing  annually  thereafter,
  successors  to  former  appointees,  the term of whose offices have then
  expired, shall be appointed for a full term. The  length  of  such  term
  shall  be  determined  by  the  board  of trustees but in no event shall
  exceed five years.
    7. A person who has been convicted of arson in any degree shall not be
  eligible for appointment to any board of fire  commissioners.  Any  fire
  commissioner  who is convicted of arson in any degree during his term of
  office shall be disqualified from completing such term of office.
    8. The board of trustees may also abolish any  such  board  or  boards
  established  under  any prior provision of law. If not so abolished such
  board or boards shall  continue  and  the  commissioners  thereof  shall
  continue in office during their respective terms.
    9.  Any  action  of  the  board  of  trustees  hereunder establishing,
  relating to or abolishing any such board or fixing the terms  of  office
  of  the members thereof shall be by resolution or local law adopted at a
  regular meeting by a majority vote of the entire board. No  such  action
  shall  be  taken unless a public hearing has first been held of which at
  least ten days public notice shall have been given by publication in the
  official village newspaper, or, if there be  none,  in  a  newspaper  of
  general circulation in the village.