13-1213.   Bonds for utilities in cities over 50,000; submission tovote.Whenever a majority of the legally qualified electors voting at anelection called and held in any city of the first class having a populationof more than fifty thousand, as hereinafter provided, shall vote in favorof the issuance of bonds of such city for the purpose of purchasing,constructing or extending a plant or works for the purpose of supplyingsuch city and its inhabitants with water, gas, electric light or heating,or such part thereof as the governing body of said city may deem necessary,it shall be lawful for the governing body of said city, by ordinance dulypassed, to provide for the issuance of the bonds so voted, and to purchase,construct and contract for the construction of such waterworks, gas,electric-light or heating plant.

      History:   L. 1908, ch. 32, § 1; Feb. 12; R.S. 1923, § 13-1213.