§ 4. Establishment of rent guidelines boards; duties. a. In each\ncounty wherein any city having a population of less than one million or\nany town or village has determined the existence of an emergency\npursuant to section three of this act, there shall be created a rent\nguidelines board to consist of nine members appointed by the\ncommissioner of housing and community renewal upon recommendation of the\ncounty legislature, except that a rent guidelines board created\nsubsequent to the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two\nthousand nineteen that amended this section shall consist of nine\nmembers appointed by the commissioner of housing and community renewal\nupon recommendations of the local legislative body of each city having a\npopulation of less than one million or town or village which has\ndetermined the existence of an emergency pursuant to section three of\nthis act. Such recommendation shall be made within thirty days after the\nfirst local declaration of an emergency in such county; two such members\nshall be representative of tenants, two shall be representative of\nowners of property, and five shall be public members each of whom shall\nhave had at least five years experience in either finance, economics or\nhousing. One public member shall be designated by the commissioner to\nserve as chairman and shall hold no other public office. No member,\nofficer or employee of any municipal rent regulation agency or the state\ndivision of housing and community renewal and no person who owns or\nmanages real estate covered by this law or who is an officer of any\nowner or tenant organization shall serve on a rent guidelines board. One\npublic member, one member representative of tenants and one member\nrepresentative of owners shall serve for a term ending two years from\nJanuary first next succeeding the date of their appointment; one public\nmember, one member representative of tenants and one member\nrepresentative of owners shall serve for terms ending three years from\nthe January first next succeeding the date of their appointment and\nthree public members shall serve for terms ending four years from\nJanuary first next succeeding the dates of their appointment.\nThereafter, all members shall serve for terms of four years each.\nMembers shall continue in office until their successors have been\nappointed and qualified. The commissioner shall fill any vacancy which\nmay occur by reason of death, resignation or otherwise in a manner\nconsistent with the original appointment. A member may be removed by the\ncommissioner for cause, but not without an opportunity to be heard in\nperson or by counsel, in his defense, upon not less than ten days\nnotice. Compensation for the members of the board shall be at the rate\nof one hundred dollars per day, for no more than twenty days a year,\nexcept that the chairman shall be compensated at the rate of one hundred\ntwenty-five dollars a day for no more than thirty days a year. The board\nshall be provided staff assistance by the division of housing and\ncommunity renewal. The compensation of such members and the costs of\nstaff assistance shall be paid by the division of housing and community\nrenewal which shall be reimbursed in the manner prescribed in section\nfour of this act. The local legislative body of each city having a\npopulation of less than one million and each town and village in which\nan emergency has been determined to exist as herein provided shall be\nauthorized to designate one person who shall be representative of\ntenants and one person who shall be representative of owners of property\nto serve at its pleasure and without compensation to advise and assist\nthe county rent guidelines board in matters affecting the adjustment of\nrents for housing accommodations in such city, town or village as the\ncase may be.\n a-1. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision a of this section\nto the contrary, in each county that became subject to this act
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