12-801


Chapter 12.--CITIES AND MUNICIPALITIES


Article 8.--PUBLIC UTILITIES

     
12-801.   Gas, water, lights, heat, street-railway, bus or telephone
service; election; bonds.

Whenever and as often as a majority of the electors voting at an
election heretofore held, or hereafter called and held, in any city shall
vote in favor of the issuance of bonds of such city for the purpose of
purchasing, constructing or extending works for the purpose of supplying
such city and its inhabitants with natural or artificial gas, water,
electric light, heating, street-railway, bus or telephone service, it shall
be lawful for the governing body of such city, by ordinance duly passed, to
direct the issuance of the bonds so voted as provided by law:
Provided, That whenever it may be deemed necessary or advisable for
such city to combine a water and electric-light plant, the same may be
done, and a separate vote on each proposition shall not be required.

     
History:   R.S. 1923, § 12-801; L. 1953, ch. 62, § 1; June 30.