ยง 601-a. Middletown community development agency. A community
development agency, to be known as the Middletown community development
agency, is hereby established for the accomplishment of any or all of
the purposes specified in articles fifteen and fifteen-A of this chapter
and in accordance with 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 the members of the city council and
the mayor who shall be the chairman. It shall have the powers and duties
now or hereafter conferred by article fifteen-A of this chapter upon
municipal urban renewal agencies. It shall be organized in the manner
prescribed by and be subject to the provisions of article fifteen-A of
this chapter and the agency, its members, officers, and employees and
its operations and activities shall in all respects be governed by the
provisions of such article.