§ 2-72. Establishment authorized.  


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  • Administrative boards may be established to exercise administrative powers granted by county ordinance, except that such board may not be authorized to pledge the credit of the county. Such administrative boards shall be a body politic and corporate, with power to contract and be contracted with and sue and be sued in its own name; provided that, as to actions of tort, such a board shall be considered as an agency of the county and occupy the same status as the county; provided, further, that no board member shall be liable in court individually for an act performed by him as such board member unless the damages caused thereby were the results of such board member's malicious acts.

(Ord. No. 158, § 2, 6-27-78)