Current as of: 2009 1. Two or more municipalities, whether in this state or in an adjoining state, provided that at least one municipality is in North Dakota, by joint resolution, may create a public body, corporate and politic, to be known as a regional airport authority which is authorized to exercise its functions upon the issuance by the secretary of state of a certificate of incorporation. The governing bodies of the municipalities participating in the creation of a regional airport authority, pursuant to such joint resolution, shall appoint at least five persons as commissioners of the regional airport authority. The number to be appointed and their representation must be provided for in the joint resolution. The term of office of each regional airport authority commissioner must be in accordance with subsection 5. Each such regional airport authority, once created, shall organize, elect officers for terms of office to be fixed by agreement, and adopt and amend from time to time rules for its own procedure not inconsistent with section 2-06-06. 2. A regional airport authority may be increased from time to time to serve one or more additional municipalities if each additional municipality and each of the municipalities then included in the regional authority and the commissioners of the regional authority, respectively, adopt a resolution consenting thereto; provided, that if a municipal airport authority for any municipality seeking to be included in the regional authority is then in existence, the commissioners of the municipal authority must consent to the inclusion of the municipality in the regional authority, and if the municipal authority has any bonds outstanding, one hundred per centum of the holders of the bonds must consent, in writing, to the inclusion of the municipality in the regional authority. Upon the inclusion of any municipality in the regional authority, all rights, contracts, obligations, and property, real and personal, of the municipal authority must be in the name of and vest in the regional authority. 3. A regional airport authority may be decreased if each of the municipalities then included in the regional authority and the commissioners of the regional authority consent to the decrease and make provisions for the retention or disposition of its assets and liabilities; provided, that if the regional authority has any bonds outstanding no decrease may be effected unless one hundred per centum of the holders of the bonds consent thereto in writing. 4. A municipality may not adopt any resolution authorized by this section without a public hearing thereon. Notice thereof must be given at least ten days prior thereto in a newspaper published in the municipality, or if there is no newspaper published therein, then in a newspaper having general circulation in the municipality. 5. All commissioners of a regional airport authority must be appointed for terms of five years each, except that a vacancy occurring otherwise than by expiration of term must be filled for the unexpired term in the same manner as the original appointments. 6. After payment of all debts, a regional airport authority may be dissolved by a joint resolution of the governing bodies of the participating municipalities. Before dissolution, the property of the regional airport authority must be sold, transferred, or distributed as agreed by the participating municipalities. Any remaining funds of the regional airport authority must be distributed to the general funds of the participating municipalities in proportion to their support of the regional airport authority. ________________________________________________________________________
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