municipal purposes

municipal purposes
Corporate purposes of a municipal corporation; purposes and activities designed primarily for the exclusive or principal benefit of the inhabitants of a particular municipality. 51 Am J1st Tax § 387. Public or governmental purposes, as contradistinguished from private purposes. A corporation created for municipal purposes is a corporation created for public or governmental purposes, with political powers to be exercised for the public good in the administration of civil government, whose members are citizens, not stockholders. Cook v Portland, 20 Or 580, 27 P 263. See corporate act.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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