Section 39-7-12
Authority to be public corporation; exercise of powers of authority.
(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.)