THE STATUS OF A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ORGANIZED UNDER AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL STATUTE

A municipal corporation has governmental as well as proprietary functions to perform. It differs from a private corporation in that its primary functions are governmental. Municipal corporations are usually spoken of as legal persons, or entities, in the same sense that private corporations are, but in studying them it must always be borne in mind that the main purpose for which most of them are created is that they may perform certain governmental functions.