7-38-101 - Formation. - Tennessee Statutes

7-38-101. Formation.

Any number of persons, resident within a municipality, may form themselves into a company for the purpose of extinguishing fires, by having their names and objective recorded in the register's office of the county.

[Code 1858, § 1706 (deriv. Acts 1831, ch. 27, § 1); Shan., § 3019; mod. Code 1932, § 5244; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 6-2401.]