The corporation shall have the following powers:
(1)To have succession by its corporate name without time limit;
(2)To sue and be sued and to prosecute and defend, at law or in equity, in any court having jurisdiction of the subject matter and of the parties;
(3)To have and to use a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure;
(4)To construct, reconstruct, and relocate industrial access roads and bridges within the state or to cause the same to be constructed, reconstructed, and relocated;
(5)To receive, take and hold by sale, gift, lease, devise or otherwise, real and personal estate of every description, and to manage the same;
(6)To acquire by purchase, gift, or the exercise of the power of eminent domain, or any other lawful means, and to transfer, convey or cause to be conv
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The corporation shall have the following powers:
(1) To have succession by its corporate name without time limit;
(2) To sue and be sued and to prosecute and defend, at law or in equity, in any court having jurisdiction of the subject matter and of the parties;
(3) To have and to use a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure;
(4) To construct, reconstruct, and relocate industrial access roads and bridges within the state or to cause the same to be constructed, reconstructed, and relocated;
(5) To receive, take and hold by sale, gift, lease, devise or otherwise, real and personal estate of every description, and to manage the same;
(6) To acquire by purchase, gift, or the exercise of the power of eminent domain, or any other lawful means, and to transfer, convey or cause to be conveyed to the state, any real, personal or mixed property necessary or convenient in connection with the construction, reconstruction, or relocation of industrial access roads and bridges in the state;
(7) To exercise the right of eminent domain as freely and completely as, and in the same manner as, the state is empowered to exercise such right;
(8) To borrow money and issue its bonds in evidence thereof subject to the provisions of Section 23-6-8 of this chapter;
(9) As security for payment of the principal of and the interest on its bonds, to pledge any funds or revenues from which its bonds may be made payable, including the proceeds of the appropriations and pledges herein provided for;
(10) To appoint and employ such attorneys, accountants, financial advisors, underwriters, trustees, depositories, registrars and other advisors, agents and independent contractors as the business of the corporation may require;
(11) To enter into contracts with counties, the State Department of Transportation or other agency performing any of the functions thereof, road district authorities, private persons, firms, or corporations, the federal emergency administrator of public works, and any other branch of the federal government, in furtherance of its public purposes and objects, either relative to work done or to be done; and
(12) To turn over to the State Department of Transportation any and all funds of the corporation as from time to time may be necessary or convenient for the most economical construction of such industrial access roads and bridges or otherwise for carrying out the business of the corporation.