1596-C - City of Yonkers parking authority.

§  1596-c.  City  of Yonkers parking authority. A board to be known as  "City of Yonkers parking authority" is hereby created. Such board  shall  be   a  body  corporate  and  politic,  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,  appointed by the mayor of the city of Yonkers, and four  other  members,  who  shall  also  be  appointed  by  the  mayor.  The appointment of the  chairman shall be for a term of five years and  of  each  of  the  other  members  for  terms of one, two, three and four years from the first day  of April, nineteen hundred sixty-four. At the expiration of such  terms,  the  terms of office of their successors shall be five years so that the  term of office  of  one-fifth  of  such  members  shall  expire  on  the  thirty-first  day  of  March in each year. 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  such term, shall be filled for the unexpired term. The  members  of  the  board  shall  choose  from  their  number a vice-chairman. The mayor 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. Such board and its corporate existence shall continue only  to the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred  ninety-nine,  and  thereafter  until  all  its liabilities have been met and its bonds have  been paid in full or such  liabilities  or  bonds  have  otherwise  been  discharged.  Upon  its  ceasing  to exist, all its rights and properties  shall pass to the city.