ยง 605. Yonkers community development agency. A municipal urban
renewal agency, to be known as the Yonkers 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 seven members: the mayor of the city of
Yonkers who shall be its chairman, the city council president, the
planning director of the city, the corporation counsel of the city, the
city comptroller and two residents of the city who are neither city
officials nor city employees and who shall be appointed by the mayor
with the advice and consent of the city council. The two residents of
the city who are first appointed shall be designated to serve for terms
of two and four years, respectively, from the date of their appointment.
Thereafter their term of office shall be four years. An appointed member
shall continue to hold office until his successor is appointed and has
qualified. The agency shall have the powers and duties now or hereafter
conferred by article fifteen-A of this chapter upon municipal renewal
agencies. It shall otherwise 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.