71.540. Municipal water supply--contracts. - Missouri Statutes

Municipal water supply--contracts.

71.540. It shall be lawful for any incorporated city, townor village in this state to enter into a contract separately orin conjunction with any other incorporated city, town or village,or cities, towns or villages, or with any private corporation orcorporations, or with any corporation now or hereafter engaged inpumping and delivering water at wholesale for domesticconsumption. It shall also be lawful for any such incorporatedcity, town or village, or cities, towns and villages in thisstate to acquire, own and hold, separately or in conjunction withany other city, town or village, or cities, towns or villages, orany private corporation in this state, water mains or interestsin water mains through which to procure an adequate supply ofwater for its inhabitants.

(RSMo 1939 § 7389)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 7238; 1919 § 8670