§ 2053-c. Rockland county solid waste management authority. 1. Upon\ncompliance with the requirements of subdivision seven of this section, a\ncorporation known as the Rockland county solid waste management\nauthority shall be deemed to have been created hereby for the public\npurposes and charged with the duties and having the powers provided in\nthis title. The authority shall be a body corporate and politic\nconstituting a public benefit corporation. In order to be more\nconsistent with the authority's goals, mission and objectives, the\nauthority shall also be known as Rockland Green and/or RG Cares.\n 2. The authority shall consist of seventeen members. Eight members\nshall be members of the county legislature. Five of the eight\nlegislative members shall be appointed by the chairman of the county\nlegislature and three shall be appointed by the minority leader of the\ncounty legislature, subject in each case to confirmation by a majority\nof the county legislature. No such appointment shall be effective unless\nthere shall be, among the legislative members of the authority, a\nresident of each of the five towns in the county. Residency shall be\ndetermined as of the effective date of appointment, and subsequent\nchanges in residency shall not effect the validity of the appointment or\nthe authority of the legislative member to serve in the authority. Each\nof the legislative members of the authority initially appointed and\ncertified to the secretary of state shall serve for a term ending on\nJanuary fifteen, nineteen hundred ninety-four. Subsequent appointments\nof legislative members of the authority shall be made in the same manner\nand for terms of two years. All legislative members shall continue to\nhold office until their successors are appointed and qualify. Vacancies\noccurring otherwise than by expiration of term shall be filled in the\nsame manner, respectively, for the unexpired term. Members may be\nremoved from office for the same reasons and in the same manner as\nprovided by law for the removal of officers of the county. Appointments\nto fill expired and unexpired terms shall be made within sixty days upon\nreceipt of notification by the chairman of the board of supervisors that\na vacancy exists.\n 3. Five members of the authority shall consist, ex officio, of the\nsupervisors of the five towns in the county. The term of each town\nsupervisor serving ex officio as a member of the authority shall\ncoincide with such member's term of elective office. No person shall be\nboth an appointed member from the county legislature and a town\nsupervisor serving ex officio as a member of the authority. Two members\nof the authority shall be appointed by and shall serve at the pleasure\nof the county executive of the county. Two members shall be mayors of\nvillages contained within the county of Rockland and shall be appointed\nby the county legislature upon the recommendation of the Rockland county\nconference of mayors. The term of each mayor serving as a member of the\nauthority shall coincide with such member's term of elective office, not\nto exceed two years. No such mayor shall be selected from a village that\nhas failed to sign the intermunicipal recyclables management agreement.\nSuch mayors are to be selected from different towns within Rockland\ncounty, and for the purposes of determining which town a mayor is\ndetermined to be from, if the jurisdiction of the municipality in which\na mayor presides spans more than one town, that mayor shall not be\nrestricted from appointment because one portion of his jurisdiction is\ncoterminous with that of another mayor chosen as a member of the\nauthority. Any member of the authority, whether appointed or serving ex\nofficio, may be removed from office by a vote of ten members of the\nauthority for gross neglect of duty, misconduct, maladministration or\nmalfeasance in office, including the unexcused failure to attend three\nconsecutive regular meetings of the aut
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