Section 45-49A-64.03
Filing of application; authorization of incorporation.
(a) A public corporation may be organized pursuant to this part in any municipality having a population of not less than 175,000 nor more than 250,000 according to the last or any subsequent federal decennial census. In order to incorporate such a public corporation, any number of natural persons, not less than three, shall first file a written application with the governing body of the municipality which application shall do all of the following:
(1) Contain a statement that the authority proposes to render public transportation service in such county.
(2) State the proposed location of the principal office of the authority, which shall be within the municipality where such application is filed.
(3) State that each of the applicants is a duly qualified elector of the municipality where such application is filed
(4) Request that such governing body adopt a resolution declaring that it is wise, expedient, and necessary that the proposed authority be formed and authorizing the applicants to proceed to form the proposed authority by the filing for record of a certificate of incorporation in accordance with Section 45-49A-64.04.
(b) Such applications shall be accompanied by such supporting documents or evidence as the applicants may consider appropriate. As promptly as may be practicable after the filing of the application with them in accordance with this section, the governing body of the municipality with which the application was filed shall review the contents of the application and shall adopt resolutions either denying the application or declaring that it is wise, expedient, and necessary that the proposed authority be formed and authorizing the applicants to proceed to form the proposed authority by the filing for record of a certificate of incorporation in accordance with Section 45-49A-64.04. Each governing body with which an application is filed shall also cause a copy of the application to be spread upon or otherwise made a part of the minutes of the meeting of such governing body at which final action upon the application is taken.
(Acts 1975, 2nd Sp. Sess., No. 31, p. 141, §4.)