13-1220. Board of public utilities in cities of more than 100,000 owning and operating waterworks and electric-light plant.
13-1220
13-1220. Board of public utilities in cities of more than 100,000 owning
and operating waterworks and electric-light plant.
In each city of the first class that now has or hereafter acquires a
population of more than one hundred thousand inhabitants, which now or
hereafter owns and operates a municipal waterworks plant and a municipal
electric-light plant, there shall be
an administrative agency known as the board of public utilities of such
city, to be elected in
the manner hereinafter provided. The board shall
manage, operate, maintain and control the daily operation of the water plant
and electric-light
plant of such city, and shall make all such rules and regulations as are
necessary for the safe, economical and efficient operation and
management of such water plants and electric-light plants. The
board may also improve, extend or enlarge the water plants
and electric-light plants as hereinafter provided, and furnish a supply
of water, light, heat and power for domestic, industrial and municipal
purposes.
History: L. 1929, ch. 126, § 1; L. 1980, ch. 72, § 2; April 14.