Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 7. LOCAL GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER 15. HOUSING AND CONSTRUCTION

Part 44. Municipal Housing Authorities

Application For Incorporation

7-15-4409. Application for incorporation. (1) The commissioners 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 a public hearing has been held as provided in 7-15-4405, that the council made the determination provided for in 7-15-4406 after the hearing, and that the mayor has appointed them as commissioners;

(b) the name and official residence of each of the commissioners, together with a certified copy of the appointment evidencing each commissioner's right to office, the date and place of induction into and taking oath of office, and that the commissioner's 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 of the commissioners 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 commissioners and knows them to be the officers as asserted in the application and that each subscribed and swore to the application in the officer's presence.

History: En. Sec. 4, Ch. 140, L. 1935; re-en. Sec. 5309.4, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 68, L. 1953; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 193, L. 1957; R.C.M. 1947, 35-104(part); amd. Sec. 619, Ch. 61, L. 2007.