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11-50-1
Section 11-50-1 Establishment, purchase, etc., of waterworks, gas or electric plants
by municipalities generally; contracts for furnishing of water, gas, or electricity; regulation
of gas, electricity, and water rates and quality. Cities and towns shall have the right to
establish, purchase, maintain, and operate waterworks or contract for a supply of wholesome
water for their inhabitants; to establish, purchase, maintain, and operate a gas or electric
light works and to contract for the furnishing of gas or electricity to the city or town and
surrounding territory; to regulate the manner and rates for furnishing gas, electricity, and
water after expiration of a contract; and to prescribe the quality of gas or electricity furnished
to the inhabitants by any person or corporation. (Code 1907, §1260; Code 1923, §2001; Code
1940, T. 37, §360.)...
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11-50-314
Section 11-50-314 Powers of corporation generally; provisions in mortgages, deeds of
trust, or pledge agreements executed by corporation as to rights of parties thereto, etc.
(a) Each corporation formed or the certificate of incorporation of which is amended under
this article shall have the following powers together with all powers incidental thereto or
necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate form: (1) To have succession by its corporate
name for the duration of time (which may be in perpetuity) specified in its certificate of
incorporation or until dissolved as provided in this article; (2) To sue and be sued and to
defend civil actions against it; (3) To make use of a corporate seal and to alter the same
at pleasure; (4) To acquire, purchase, construct, operate, maintain, enlarge, extend, and
improve any system or systems, the operation of which is provided for in the certificate of
incorporation of such corporation or in any amendment thereto (whether or not such system
or...
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11-50B-3
Section 11-50B-3 Permitted activities by public providers; lease of equipment by municipal
governing bodies. In addition to all other power, rights, and authority heretofore granted
by law, public providers may acquire, establish, purchase, construct, maintain, enlarge, extend,
lease, improve, and operate cable systems, telecommunications equipment and telecommunications
systems, and furnish cable service, interactive computer service, Internet access, other Internet
services, and advanced telecommunications service, or any combination thereof, in the case
of a public provider that is a municipality, to the inhabitants of the municipality and police
jurisdiction, the area within the territorial jurisdiction of the municipal planning commission
determined in accordance with the provisions of Section 11-52-30, as amended, and any
area in which the municipality furnishes or sells any utility, such as electricity, gas, water,
or sewer, and in the case of a public provider that is a...
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40-21-50
Section 40-21-50 Levied generally. For each person operating a public utility, such
as a street railroad or interurban railroad operated by electricity or other motive power,
waterworks, gas company, pipeline company for transporting or carrying gas, oil, gasoline,
water or other commodities, gas distributing companies, whether by means of pipeline or by
tanks, drums, tubes, cylinders or otherwise, heating companies or other public utility, except
electric, hydroelectric, telephone or telegraph companies, railroad or sleeping car companies
and express companies which are otherwise licensed, shall pay to the state a license tax equal
to two and two-tenths percent on each $1 of gross receipts of such public utility in this
state for the preceding year. For the first year's business, where an existing public utility
is taken over, such license tax payable to the state shall be equal to two and two-tenths
percent on each $1 of the gross receipts for the preceding year of the public utility...
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11-50-140
Section 11-50-140 Definitions. When used in this article, the following words and phrases
shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1) ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANT. A plant and system for the generation, manufacture, and distribution
of electricity or a system for the purchase, transportation, and/or distribution of electricity,
together with all appurtenances thereto and all property used or useful in connection therewith,
including franchises. (2) GAS PLANT. A plant and system for the manufacture and distribution
of gas or a system for the purchase, transportation, and/or distribution of manufactured or
natural gas, together with all appurtenances thereto and all property used or useful in connection
therewith, including franchises. (3) WATERWORKS PLANT. A plant and system for the gathering,
collecting, or impounding of water and the distribution thereof for domestic or industrial
use or both or a plant or system for the purchase,...
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11-50-5
Section 11-50-5 Construction, purchase, operation, etc., of waterworks and water supply
plants and systems and expenditure of municipal funds therefor. (a) Any municipality in this
state may construct, purchase, operate, maintain, enlarge, extend, and improve waterworks
plants and systems or any part or parts thereof, whether located within or without or partly
within and partly without the corporate limits of such municipality. Such plants and systems
may be purchased subject to encumbrances and to contracts to furnish water therefrom, the
payment and performance of which may be assumed. Any municipality in this state may furnish
and distribute, under contract, water to persons, firms, and corporations in such municipality
and to persons, firms, and corporations in the territory surrounding such municipality, whether
or not the territory surrounding such municipality is contiguous thereto. (b) Without limiting
the generality of any of the language contained in subsection (a) of this...
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11-47-3
Section 11-47-3 Contracts and indebtedness for municipal buildings and public utility
systems; consolidation of systems; ancillary service contracts. (a) The governing body of
any city or town may contract for the construction, reconstruction, extension, or repair of
any municipal building, plant, waterworks system, or electric light and power plant or system
or may on credit employ labor and purchase on credit all materials and supplies needed in
such construction, reconstruction, extension, or repair and may, without an election, issue
evidences of indebtedness in the forms and of the maturities described in Section 11-47-2
to the extent of any indebtedness incurred in such contract or purchase or construction, reconstruction
or extension and may secure such evidences of indebtedness by mortgage or deed of trust (in
such form and with such provisions as such governing body may determine) on such municipal
building, plant, waterworks system, or electric light and power plant or...
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11-81-51
Section 11-81-51 Purposes for which bonds may be issued. All municipalities shall have
full and continuing power and authority within the limits of the Constitution now in effect
or that may be hereafter provided to issue and sell bonds (when such issue is authorized by
an election as provided in this article if such election is required by the Constitution,
but without an election if an election is not so required) for the following named purposes:
(1) For the purpose of constructing, reconstructing, enlarging or extending public buildings,
sewers, streets, alleys, bridges and public schoolhouses and buildings and of constructing
or acquiring by purchase or otherwise water, electric light, electric power and gas plants
and systems or any two or more such plants or systems combined, including transmission and
distribution systems, and of constructing enlargements and extensions to any such plants or
systems; (2) For the purchase of real estate necessary for any improvement authorized...
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24-1-6
Section 24-1-6 Establishment of rentals and tenant selection in low rent housing projects.
(a) It is declared to be the policy of this state that each housing authority shall manage
and operate its low rent housing projects in an efficient manner so as to enable it to fix
the rentals for dwelling accommodations at the lowest possible rates consistent with its providing
decent, safe, and sanitary dwelling accommodations for persons of low income, and that no
housing authority shall construct or operate any such project for profit, or as a source of
revenue of the city or town. To this end a housing authority shall fix the rentals for such
dwellings in its low rent housing projects at no higher rates than it shall find to be necessary
in order to produce revenues which, together with all other available moneys, revenues, income,
and receipts of such authority from whatever sources derived, including federal financial
assistance necessary to maintain the low rent character of the...
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4-3-47
Section 4-3-47 Powers of authority generally. The authority shall have the following
powers, together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof
in corporate form: (1) To have succession by its corporate name for the duration of time (which
may be in perpetuity) specified in its certificate of incorporation; (2) To sue and be sued
in its own name in civil actions, excepting actions in tort against the authority; (3) To
adopt and make use of a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure; (4) To adopt and
alter bylaws for the regulation and conduct of its affairs and business; (5) To acquire, receive,
take and hold, whether by purchase, option to purchase, gift, lease, devise or otherwise,
property of every description, whether real, personal or mixed, whether in one or more counties
and whether within or without the corporate limits of any authorizing subdivision, and to
manage said property and to develop any property and to sell, exchange, lease or...
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