Opinion Letter No. 198-80
Contents of letter
November 13, 1980
The Honorable Paul Bradshaw
Senator
District 30
705 Woodruff Building
Springfield, Missouri 65805
Dear Senator Bradshaw:
This letter is in response to your question asking:
May a 'housing authority', created under provisions of RSMo § 99.040, do business under a name that does not include the words 'the housing authority'? Specifically, may the housing authority of Springfield, Missouri do business as 'H.A.S. Properties' without violating RSMo § 99.040?
Section 99.040, RSMo, to which you refer, provides in pertinent part:
1. In each city (as herein defined) and in each county of the state there is hereby created a municipal corporation to be known as 'the housing authority' of the city or county; . . ..
It is our view that the statute prescribes the name of such housing authority, and there is no legal authority that we are aware of which would authorize such a municipal corporation to adopt a name not consistent with such provisions.
Very truly yours,
John Ashcroft
Attorney General