Each organized county within the state shall be a body corporate and politic and as such shall be empowered for the following purposes:
1. To sue and be sued;
2. To purchase and hold real and personal estate for the use of the county, and lands sold for taxes as provided by law;
3. To sell and convey any real or personal estate owned by the county, and make such order respecting the same as may be deemed conducive to the interests of the inhabitants;
4. To execute leases of real property owned by the county to nonprofit corporations organized for the general purpose of historical preservation;
5. To make all contracts and do all other acts in relation to the property and concerns of the county necessary to the exercise of corporate or administrative power; and
6. To exercise such other and further powers as may be especially provided for by law.
R.L. 1910, § 1497. Amended by Laws 1986, c. 135, § 1, emerg. eff. April 17, 1986.
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