* § 2053. Broome county sports center authority. A board to be known as "Broome county sports center authority" is hereby created. The 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 and four other members, all of whom shall be appointed by the local legislative body of Broome county. The appointment of a chairman shall be for a term of six years, and of the other four members, two for a term of two years, and two for a term of four years, respectively, from the first day of September, nineteen hundred sixty-eight. At the expiration of such terms the terms of office of their successors shall be six years. Each member shall continue to serve until the appointment and qualification of his successor. Vacancies in such board occurring otherwise than by expiration of term shall be filled for the unexpired term. The members of the board shall choose from their number a vice chairman. The local legislative body of Broome county 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. 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. The 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. The board, and its corporate existence, shall continue only for a period of nine years, 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, except that no additional liabilities may be incurred after the termination of its corporate existence. Upon its ceasing to exist, all its rights and property shall pass to the County.

* NB Authority dissolved September 1, 1977