13-1220.   Board of public utilities in cities of more than 100,000 owningand operating waterworks and electric-light plant.In each city of the first class that now has or hereafter acquires apopulation of more than one hundred thousand inhabitants, which now orhereafter owns and operates a municipal waterworks plant and a municipalelectric-light plant, there shall bean administrative agency known as the board of public utilities of suchcity, to be elected inthe manner hereinafter provided. The board shallmanage, operate, maintain and control the daily operation of the water plantand electric-lightplant of such city, and shall make all such rules and regulations as arenecessary for the safe, economical and efficient operation andmanagement of such water plants and electric-light plants. Theboard may also improve, extend or enlarge the water plantsand electric-light plants as hereinafter provided, and furnish a supplyof water, light, heat and power for domestic, industrial and municipalpurposes.

      History:   L. 1929, ch. 126, § 1; L. 1980, ch. 72, § 2; April 14.