§ 616. Utica urban renewal agency. An urban renewal agency, to be
known as the Utica urban renewal agency, is hereby established for the
accomplishment of any or all of the purposes specified in articles
fifteen and fifteen-A of the 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, including the mayor, who shall be chair, the
city engineer, the chair of the city planning board, all of whose terms
shall expire with the term of the mayor, two citizen electors, appointed
by and to serve at the pleasure of the mayor and two members of the
common council, appointed by the council, who shall not be of the same
political party and each of whom shall serve until the expiration of
their term of office as council member. The treasurer of the agency
shall be the comptroller who shall not be a member of the agency. It
shall have the powers and duties now or hereafter covered by article
fifteen-A of this chapter upon municipal 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 covered by the provisions of such article.