§ 127. Appointment and terms of office of managers. 1. Except as
provided in subdivision two, when a governing board of a county, town,
city or village shall have determined to establish a public general
hospital for the care and treatment of the sick, the board of
supervisors of the county, the supervisor of the town, the mayor of the
city or the president of the board of trustees of the village shall
appoint not less than five and not more than fifteen citizens of the
county, town, city or village, respectively, who shall constitute a
board of managers of the said hospital. The term of office of each
member of said board shall be five years, and the term of one of such
managers shall expire annually; the first appointments, however, being
made for the respective terms of five, four, three, two and one years.
Appointments of successors shall be for the full term of five years,
except that the appointment of a person to fill a vacancy occurring by
death, resignation or cause other than the expiration of a term shall be
made for the unexpired term.

2. When the board of supervisors of any county having a population of
more than six hundred thousand but less than one million shall have
determined to establish a public general hospital for the care and
treatment of the sick, the board of supervisors of such county shall
appoint seven citizens of the county who shall constitute a board of
managers of such hospital. The members of such board first appointed
shall be appointed for terms of office as follows: one for a term of one
year, two for terms of two years each, one for a term of three years,
two for terms of four years each, and one for a term of five years.
Their successors shall be appointed for terms of five years each.
Vacancies occurring by death, resignation or cause other than the
expiration of a term shall be made for the remainder of the unexpired
term.

3. Failure of any manager to attend three consecutive meetings of the
board shall cause a vacancy in his office, unless said absence is
excused by formal action of the board of managers. The managers shall
receive no compensation for their services, but shall be allowed their
actual and necessary traveling and other expenses, to be audited by the
governing board, and paid in the same manner as the other expenses of
the hospital. Any manager may be removed from office at any time by the
appointing authority after having received notice in writing of the
cause of the proposed removal and after an opportunity to be heard
thereon. Unless a treasurer for the hospital is appointed as herein
provided the treasurer of the county, town, city or village by which the
hospital is maintained shall be treasurer of the hospital.