1762 - Salamanca hospital district authority.
§ 1762. Salamanca hospital district authority. 1. A board to be known as the "Salamanca hospital district authority" is hereby created for the purpose of creating and operating a public general hospital in the hospital district to be organized as herein set forth. Such board shall be a body corporate and politic constituting a public benefit corporation. The authority and its corporate existence shall be perpetual. 2. The authority shall become effective and the district organized on the first day of January, nineteen hundred fifty-nine. If the minimum number of municipalities do not approve its formation in earlier years, it shall become effective and the district organized on the first day of January, nineteen hundred sixty or nineteen hundred sixty-one. 3. The authority shall consist of seven representatives of the city of Salamanca and one for each of the towns which become members of the authority. Seven of the members shall be representatives of the city of Salamanca and shall be appointed by the mayor, subject to approval of the common council. One member shall be appointed to represent each of the participating towns, and each town representative shall be appointed by its respective town board. 4. The first members shall be appointed for the city of Salamanca for the following terms from the first day of January, nineteen hundred fifty-nine as follows: Two for a term of one year, two for a term of two years, one for a term of three years, one for a term of four years and one for a term of five years. The first members shall be appointed for the towns for terms beginning on the first day of January, nineteen hundred fifty-nine or on the first day of January of the following two years when participation of said towns is effective as may be fixed in the agreement to be entered into by the participating municipalities. The initial representatives of the towns shall serve for terms as fixed in said agreement. 5. Subsequent appointments of each city or town representative shall be made in the same manner as above set forth and for a term of five years. 6. All members shall continue to hold office until their successors are appointed and qualified. The resignation of any members shall be filed with the appointing authority and shall be effective when so filed. Vacancies occurring otherwise than by expiration of term of office, shall be filled for the unexpired term. 7. Members of the board may be removed from office for the same reasons and in the same manner as may be provided by law for the removal of officers of a city, respecting the members from the city of Salamanca, or as may be provided by law for the removal of officers of a town, respecting the members from the towns. 8. The members shall receive no compensation for their services, but may be reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses incurred in connection with the performance of their official duties if the authority shall so provide by resolution for such cases. 9. The powers of the authority shall be vested in and exercised by the members as heretofore set forth and the authority formed at a meeting called for said purpose by the chairman of the existing board of managers of the Salamanca hospital district as soon as convenient after the approving vote of the minimum number of municipalities required to organize the authority. 10. Seven members of the authority shall constitute a quorum necessary to constitute a legal meeting and to do business. A majority vote of the members present shall be necessary to constitute favorable action at any meeting.11. Oaths of office of all members of the authority shall be filed with the Cattaraugus county clerk. 12. All changes in the officers and members of the board shall be contained in the minute book of the board.