§39-7-12. Authority to be public corporation; exercise of powers of authority.  


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  • (a) Each authority incorporated under this chapter shall be a public corporation in perpetuity under its corporate name and the same shall in that name be a body politic and corporate, with power of perpetual succession.

    (b) The power of each authority shall be vested in and exercised by a majority of the members of the board of trustees of the improvement authority in office.

(Acts 1935, No. 40, p. 72; Code 1940, T. 50, §28.)