Municipalities shall be bodies politic and corporate under the name and style of "city of __________" and under such name may sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, acquire and hold real and personal property for corporate purposes, and have an official seal which may be changed at pleasure.
40-01-03. Judicial notice of existence and change of organization to be taken by courts. Courts shall take judicial notice of the existence of a municipality by the name and style designated at the time of its incorporation, and of the change of the form of the organization of any municipality from its original form to any other type of organization provided by this title.