§ 11-15-3 — Authority and Procedure for Incorporation

Whenever any number of natural persons, not less than three, shall file with the governing body an application in writing for authority to incorporate a public corporation under the provisions of this chapter, if it shall be made to appear to the governing body that each of the said persons is a duly qualified elector of and property owner in the county and if the governing body shall duly adopt a resolution wherein it shall be declared that it will be wise, expedient and necessary that such a corporation be formed and that the persons filing such application shall be authorized to proceed to form such corporation, then the said persons shall become the incorporators of and shall proceed to incorporate the corporation in the manner provided in this chapter. No corporation shall be formed under this chapter unless the application herein provided for shall be made and unless the resolution provided for in this section shall be adopted.

Legislative History

(Acts 1951, No. 682, p. 1172, §3.)