* § 1123. Dutchess county water and wastewater authority. 1. A public\ncorporation, to be known as the "Dutchess county water and wastewater\nauthority" is hereby created for the public purpose and charged with the\nduties and having the powers provided in this title. The authority shall\nbe a body corporate and politic constituting a public benefit\ncorporation and shall be a "public district" for purposes of section\neighty-nine-l of the public service law, the objects of which in the\njudgment of the legislature cannot be attained under general laws. The\ngoverning body of the authority shall consist of a total of five voting\nmembers, two of whom shall be appointed by the county executive, without\nconfirmation of the county legislature, two of whom shall be appointed\nby the chairman of the county legislature, without confirmation of the\ncounty legislature and without county executive right to veto, and one\nof whom shall be appointed jointly by the county executive and the\nchairman of the county legislature, subject to confirmation by the\ncounty legislature, and of three non-voting ex officio members, one of\nwhom shall be the manager of the county soil and water conservation\ndistrict, one of whom shall be the executive director of the\nenvironmental management council and one of whom shall be the county\ncommissioner of planning, or their designated representatives. No voting\nmember shall, either at the time of his or her appointment or at any\ntime during which he or she shall serve as a voting member, be a member\nof the county legislature, a town board, village board of trustees, city\ncouncil, common council, board of estimate and apportionment, board of\nestimate and contract, or member of a body serving a similar function in\na city, or a member of a body serving a similar function of a sewer or\nwater district which, as of December thirty-first, nineteen hundred\nthirty-eight, possessed both the power to contract indebtedness in its\nown name and to levy taxes or benefit assessments upon real property or\nrequire the levy of such taxes or benefit assessments. The election or\nappointment of a voting member to any such office or membership shall\nresult in a vacancy in the position of such voting member effective the\ndate of the assumption of such office or membership. The first members\nappointed by the county executive shall be appointed for the following\nterms of office: one for a term ending on December thirty-first of the\nsecond year following the year in which this title shall have become law\nand one for a term ending on December thirty-first of the fifth year\nfollowing the year in which this title shall have become law. The first\nmembers appointed by the county legislature shall have the following\nterms: one for a term ending on December thirty-first of the first year\nfollowing the year in which this title shall have become law and one for\na term ending on December thirty-first of the fourth year following the\nyear in which this title shall have become law. The first member jointly\nappointed by the county executive and the county legislature shall have\na term of office ending on December thirty-first of the third year\nfollowing the year in which this title shall have become law. Subsequent\nappointments of voting members shall be made for a term of five years\nending in each case on December thirty-first of the last year of such\nterm. No person who has served as a voting member for two consecutive\nterms shall be eligible for reappointment as a member for a third term,\nexcept after an interval of at least two years. Any initial term or\nunexpired term greater than two years shall be considered to be a five\nyear term. All voting members shall continue to hold office until their\nsuccessors are appointed and qualify. Vacancies shall be filed in the\nmanner provided for original appointment. Vacancies, occurring otherwise\nthan by expiration of term of office, shall be filled by appointmen
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