§ 583. White Plains urban renewal agency. 1. A municipal urban renewal
agency, to be known as the White Plains urban renewal agency, is hereby
established for the accomplishment of any or all of the objects or
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. Such agency shall constitute a body corporate and politic, and
shall consist of five members. The members of such agency shall be
appointed by the mayor of such city who may appoint himself as one of
such members. Such agency shall be perpetual in duration, except that in
the event that the certificate to be executed and filed by such mayor
pursuant to subdivision one of section five hundred fifty-three of this
chapter is not filed and approved by the state commissioner of housing
and community renewal prior to July first, nineteen hundred sixty-five,
then the corporate existence of such agency shall thereupon terminate
and such agency shall thereupon be deemed to be and shall be dissolved.

2. Such agency shall have the powers and duties now or hereafter
conferred by article fifteen-A of this chapter upon municipal urban
renewal agencies, and shall be organized in the manner prescribed by and
shall be subject to the provisions of such article. Such agency, its
members, officers and employees and its operations and activities,
shall, in all respects, be governed by the provisions of articles
fifteen and fifteen-A of this chapter.