Title 21, Municipalities

The governing authorities of any two or more municipalities may, in their discretion, contract to create a consolidated fire district, which shall consist of the whole, or a part, of the territory of such municipalities joining therein. Such contract entered into by the governing…

The municipal governing authorities are vested with full power to raise the levy on the property, both personal and real, by special assessment within such fire district sufficient to pay for laying such water mains, and to meet the contracted annual rental for such service. Such…

The said governing authorities shall have power to declare an extension of such service to any adjacent territory, within or adjoining such municipality, upon petition of a majority of the property owners in such proposed added territory. In like manner, upon petition of a majori…

(1) The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power to provide for the prevention and extinguishment of fires, to organize, establish, operate, and maintain fire and hook and ladder companies, to provide for and maintain a fire department and system, and to regul…

Any municipality authorized to establish a fire district may purchase or construct any waterworks plant or other plant or equipment necessary for the establishment or maintenance of fire service in such fire district. Such municipality may issue the bonds of such fire district, a…

The fire departments, including the apparatus and all vehicles of such departments, are hereby authorized to use the roads, highways, streets and alleys outside the corporate limits of such municipalities owning and operating such fire fighting and fire prevention equipment, for …

(1) It is the purpose of Sections 21-25-51 through 21-25-59 to permit the governing authorities of any municipality and a rural water association operating within the corporate limits of the municipality to make the most efficient use of their powers in upgrading their respective…

(1) No interlocal agreement made under Sections 21-25-51 through 21-25-59 shall be entered into by any municipality or rural water association without the approval by resolution on the minutes of the governing authorities of the municipality and the rural water association. (2) N…

(a) Any agreement made under the provisions of Sections 21-25-51 through 21-25-59 shall specify the following:(a) Its duration.(b) Its purpose or purposes.(c) The precise organization, composition, nature and powers of any separate legal or administrative entity created thereby; …

The governing authorities of any municipality entering into an interlocal agreement with a rural water association operating within the corporate limits of the municipality pursuant to Sections 21-25-51 through 21-25-59 may incur bonded and floating indebtedness, including genera…

After a water system has been constructed or upgraded pursuant to the provisions of Sections 21-25-51 through 21-25-59, the municipality which reimbursed or paid a rural water system for the cost of such construction or upgrading shall not be charged with the costs of such constr…

In all municipalities of this state maintaining a paid fire department, the personnel of which department is actively and exclusively engaged in fire duty, no member of such department, exclusive of the chief officer, shall be required to remain on active duty for an entire twent…

In all municipalities of this state maintaining a paid or volunteer fire department, the personnel of which department is actively and exclusively engaged in fire duty or emergency medical services, the governing authorities of such municipality may pay out of the general fund of…