§ 160A‑578. Purpose of the authority.
The purpose of the authority shall be to provide for a safe, adequateand convenient public transportation system for the municipality creating theauthority and for its immediate environs, through the granting of franchises,ownership and leasing of terminals, buses and other transportation facilitiesand equipment, and otherwise through the exercise of the powers and dutiesconferred upon it. (1977, c. 465;1979, 2nd Sess., c. 1247, s. 45.)