§ 8-601. Incorporation; powers generally.

(a)

The Savannah-Chatham County Historic Site and Monument Commission is hereby declared to be a body corporate and politic and, as such public corporation, shall have perpetual existence, with full power and authority to have and use a common seal, to sue and to be sued, to incur debts, liabilities and obligations, to purchase, acquire by gift, construct, lease and to manage and/or operate real or personal property within or without the corporate limits of the City of Savannah in Chatham County, Georgia, to make charges for admission thereto and/or for the use thereof, and for any such purposes to own, hold, lease, manage, control and/or operate the same and to do all acts and to exercise all powers authorized by any ordinance of the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah which may be passed consonant herewith.

(b)

The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah is hereby authorized and empowered to grant and delegate to the Savannah-Chatham County Historic Site and Monument Commission such further and additional lawful authority and power as the said Mayor and Aldermen may deem necessary, convenient or desirable in furtherance of the purposes expressed in this chapter and the said Historic Site and Monument Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to exercise and carry out all power, authority, and function granted to and delegated to it hereby, or which may be hereafter granted to or delegated to it by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, or by the State of Georgia or any department or subdivision thereof, consonant with the purposes expressed in this chapter.

(1949 Ga. Laws, page 977, §§ 1, 3; 1950 Ga. Laws, page 2365, § 1)