§ 653. Nassau county bridge authority. A board to be known as "Nassau
county bridge authority" is hereby created. Such 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 who
shall be appointed by the county executive of the county with the
approval of the county legislature. The original appointments shall be
made in such manner that the term of one member shall expire on the
December thirty-first next after the appointment of the board and one
member on the second December thirty-first after the appointment of the
board and one member on the third December thirty-first after the
appointment of the board. Their successors shall be appointed one
annually for terms of five years each from the first day of January
following the end of the term of his or her predecessor. Each member
shall continue to serve until the appointment and qualification of his
or her successor. Vacancies in such board occurring otherwise than by
the expiration of term shall be filled for the unexpired term. The
members of the board shall choose from their number a vice-chairman. The
county executive may remove any member of the board for inefficiency,
neglect of duty or misconduct in office, giving him or her a copy of the
charges against him or her and an opportunity of being heard in person,
or by counsel, in his or her defense upon not less than ten days'
notice. The members of the board shall be entitled to such compensation,
if any, for their services as shall be fixed by ordinance of the county
legislature and 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. Such 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. Such board and
its corporate existence shall continue until March first of the year
nineteen hundred eighty-five, and thereafter until all its liabilities
have been met and its notes and bonds have been paid in full or such
liabilities or notes and bonds have otherwise been discharged. Upon its
ceasing to exist, all its rights and properties shall pass to the
county.