* § 1621-c. Middletown parking authority. A board to be known as "Middletown parking 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 chairperson and four other members, all of whom shall be appointed by the mayor with the approval of the common council of the city. The appointment of the chairperson shall be for a term of four years. Of the other members first appointed, one shall be appointed for a period of one year, one for a period of two years, one for a period of three years, one for a period of four years. At the expiration of such terms, the terms of office of their successors shall be four years. 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 by the mayor with the approval of the common council. The members of the board shall choose from their number a vice-chairperson and such other officers deemed desirable by the board. The common council 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 no compensation for their services but 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 only to the thirty-first day of December, two thousand twelve, and thereafter until all its liabilities and duties have been met and its bonds and notes have been paid in full or such liabilities, bonds and notes have otherwise been discharged. Upon its ceasing to exist, all its rights and properties shall pass to the city.

* NB Board ceases to exist December 31, 2012, and thereafter until all liabilities have been met/discharged and bonds paid/discharged