Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 7. LOCAL GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER 15. HOUSING AND CONSTRUCTION

Part 21. County Housing Authorities

Application For Incorporation

7-15-2107. Application for incorporation. (1) The commissioners of the authority shall present to the secretary of state an application signed by them that must set forth without any detail other than the mere recital:

(a) that a notice has been given and public hearing has been held and that the board of county commissioners made the determination provided for in 7-15-2105 after the hearing and appointed them as commissioners;

(b) the name and official residence of each commissioner, together with a certified copy of the appointment evidencing the commissioner's right to office, the date and place of induction into and taking the oath of office, and that the commissioners desire the housing authority to become a public body and a body corporate and politic under this part;

(c) the term of office of each of the commissioners;

(d) the name that is proposed for the corporation; and

(e) the location of the principal office of the proposed corporation.

(2) The application must be subscribed and sworn to by each commissioner before an officer authorized by the laws of the state to take and certify oaths, who shall certify upon the application that the officer personally knows the commissioner and knows the commissioner to be an officer as asserted in the application and that the commissioner subscribed and swore to the application in the officer's presence.

History: En. Sec. 5, Ch. 153, L. 1941; re-en. Sec. 5309.27A, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 281, L. 1971; R.C.M. 1947, 35-128(part); amd. Sec. 612, Ch. 61, L. 2007.