12-631b.   Acquisition of certain sewers or sewage facilities;ordinance.Any city of this state is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire bygift, purchase or otherwise any sanitary sewers or sewage lines locatedwithin the corporate limits of said city or within a distance of three (3)miles beyond the corporate limits of said city, which facilities have beenconstructed and are in place. Such acquisition may be by gift, grant orpurchase from the United States government or any agency thereof, or anyother owner thereof. Such acquisition may be had by any such city when thegoverning body shall have adopted an ordinance declaring the acquisition ofsuch sewers or sewage facilities to be necessary, convenient or useful tosuch city and that the same is of value to said city, its inhabitants, orto industries located in the immediate environs of such city and so locatedas to be served by such sewers or sewage facilities.

      History:   L. 1947, ch. 131, § 1; L. 1969, ch. 74, §1; July 1.