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MS Code § 21-25-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 25 - Fire Departments and Fire Districts|General Provisions|§ 21-25-11. Purchase of certain insurance for firemen; payment of premiums

 The governing authorities of any municipality having a population in excess of 140,000 people by virtue of the 1960 census are hereby authorized to purchase insurance coverage to protect firemen working under the direction of the municipal authorities, against any suit or claims growing out of any action of such firemen guilty of false arrest, false imprisonment, false or improper service of process, malicious prosecution or any other claim resulting from such officers' performance of official duties.   Such municipal authorities shall have the right to pay out of the general fund of such municipality any premiums which may become due on the aforesaid insurance policies.
MS Code § 21-25-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 25 - Fire Departments and Fire Districts|Fire Districts|§ 21-25-21. Creation

 The governing authorities of any municipality are hereby authorized to create, by ordinance, a fire district within or adjoining such municipality when petitioned so to do by a majority of the owners of property, either real or personal, located within such proposed fire district. After the creation of the fire district such governing authorities shall cause the ordinance creating such fire district to be published three weeks in some newspaper in such municipality, or the county in which the municipality is located, and at the next regular meeting of the governing authorities after such three weeks' publication, they shall declare such territory to be a fire district as provided by this section. Such governing authorities shall have full power to contract for laying water mains and any other pipes or connections to the water mains to be used in said fire district, and for the establishment and maintenance of fire service therein.
MS Code § 21-25-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 25 - Fire Departments and Fire Districts|Fire Districts|§ 21-25-23. Inclusion of state institution of higher learning

 The governing authorities of any municipality are hereby authorized, when petitioned so to do by the board of trustees of state institutions of higher learning, to create, by ordinance, a fire district encompassing the area adjoining such municipality on which a part or all of a state institution of higher learning is located, after the creation of which such governing authorities and the board of trustees of state institutions of higher learning shall have full power to contract for laying of water mains and any other pipes or connections to the water mains to be used in said fire district, and for the establishment and maintenance of fire service therein. However, no such governing authority shall have the power either to promulgate or enforce any charge, rule or regulation upon said district without first having received the ratification and consent of the board of trustees of state institutions of higher learning as reflected by the minutes of said trustees.
MS Code § 21-25-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 25 - Fire Departments and Fire Districts|Fire Districts|§ 21-25-25. Consolidated fire districts

 The governing authorities of any two or more municipalities may, in their discretion, contract to create a consolidated fire district, which shall consist of the whole, or a part, of the territory of such municipalities joining therein. Such contract entered into by the governing authorities of such municipalities shall embrace all of the essential terms, and shall state the amount to be contributed by each participating municipality, and the control and operation of same. An ordinance containing the contract as to control of equipment, supervision of the district, and the amount of money to be contributed by each municipality, shall be passed by the governing authorities of all participating municipalities in the same form and substance. Such ordinance shall be duly published as now required by law, and shall go into effect unless twenty per cent of the qualified electors of one of the participating municipalities shall petition against same and file said petition with the proper clerk on or before the next regular meeting of said governing authorities, to be held not less than fifteen days thereafter. If such petition be duly filed, said governing authorities may either cancel said prior ordinance or order an election on said question. Said ordinance shall go into effect immediately if a majority of the qualified electors voting in said election vote therefor; otherwise, said ordinance shall remain void and of no effect, and no like ordinance shall be passed within four years thereafter.   Such consolidated fire district shall be given a name, and the supervision of protecting said district shall be vested in the governing authorities of the municipality decided upon and stated in the ordinance creating the consolidated fire district. The governing authorities of the municipalities in a consolidated fire district created under the provisions of this section shall have the same powers and duties as the governing authorities in any other fire district.
MS Code § 21-25-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 25 - Fire Departments and Fire Districts|Fire Districts|§ 21-25-27. Levy by special assessment within district to pay for service

 The municipal governing authorities are vested with full power to raise the levy on the property, both personal and real, by special assessment within such fire district sufficient to pay for laying such water mains, and to meet the contracted annual rental for such service. Such authorities shall have all power to enforce and collect said taxes as provided by statutes empowering municipalities to collect special assessments, and it shall be done in the same general way and may be assessed at any time and cover such length of time as the governing authorities may deem proper.
MS Code § 21-25-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 25 - Fire Departments and Fire Districts|Fire Districts|§ 21-25-29. Extension of service; abandonment

 The said governing authorities shall have power to declare an extension of such service to any adjacent territory, within or adjoining such municipality, upon petition of a majority of the property owners in such proposed added territory. In like manner, upon petition of a majority of the property owners residing therein, such fire districts may be abandoned and discontinued by the governing authorities of the municipalities involved.
MS Code § 21-25-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 25 - Fire Departments and Fire Districts|Fire Districts|§ 21-25-31. Acquisition of plant and equipment

 Any municipality authorized to establish a fire district may purchase or construct any waterworks plant or other plant or equipment necessary for the establishment or maintenance of fire service in such fire district. Such municipality may issue the bonds of such fire district, as now provided by law, for the purpose of securing funds to be used for the purchase or construction of such plant. Such municipality may pay or retire such bonds from taxes annually levied on the taxable property of such district, as provided for in Section 21-25-27.
MS Code § 21-25-51 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 25 - Fire Departments and Fire Districts|Interlocal Agreements Between Municipalities and Rural Water Associations|§ 21-25-51. Purpose; interlocal agreements authorized

  It is the purpose of Sections 21-25-51 through 21-25-59 to permit the governing authorities of any municipality and a rural water association operating within the corporate limits of the municipality to make the most efficient use of their powers in upgrading their respective water systems for the purpose of improving local fire protection by enabling them to cooperate and to contract with each other on a basis of mutual advantage and thereby provide services and facilities in a manner that will accord best with geographic, economic, population and other factors influencing the needs and development of the fire protection of local communities.   The governing authorities of any municipality may enter into an interlocal agreement with any rural water association operating within the corporate limits of the municipality for the purpose of constructing, new construction or upgrading the water system of the municipality or the water association, or both, for the purpose of improving the fire protection of the municipality.
MS Code § 21-25-53 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 25 - Fire Departments and Fire Districts|Interlocal Agreements Between Municipalities and Rural Water Associations|§ 21-25-53. Approval by resolution; power, authority and responsibilities

  No interlocal agreement made under Sections 21-25-51 through 21-25-59 shall be entered into by any municipality or rural water association without the approval by resolution on the minutes of the governing authorities of the municipality and the rural water association.   No power, authority and responsibility may be exercised under Sections 21-25-51 through 21-25-59 by the governing authorities of any municipality or rural water association which it would not have authority to exercise otherwise pursuant to the law controlling such municipality or association.   Any power, authority or responsibility exercised or capable of being exercised by the governing authorities of any municipality of this state may be exercised and carried out jointly with the governing authorities of any rural water association.
MS Code § 21-25-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 25 - Fire Departments and Fire Districts|Interlocal Agreements Between Municipalities and Rural Water Associations|§ 21-25-55. Contents of agreement

 Any agreement made under the provisions of Sections 21-25-51 through 21-25-59 shall specify the following:   Its duration.   Its purpose or purposes.   The precise organization, composition, nature and powers of any separate legal or administrative entity created thereby; the specific citation of statutory authority vested in each of the governing authorities of the municipality and rural water association which are to be a party to the agreement.   The manner of financing, staffing and supplying the joint or cooperative undertaking and of establishing and maintaining a budget therefore; provided, that the treasurer and the disbursing officer of either the municipality or the association, or both, shall be designated in the agreement to receive, disburse and account for all funds of the joint undertaking as a part of the duties of the officer or officers.   The permissible method or methods to be employed in accomplishing the partial or complete termination or amendment of the agreement and for disposing of property upon such partial or complete termination or amendment.   The provision for administration, through a joint board or other appropriate means, of the joint or cooperative undertaking in the event that the agreement does not or may not establish a separate administrative body or legal entity to conduct the joint or cooperative undertaking. In the case of a joint board, both the governing authorities of the municipality and the rural water association shall be represented.   The manner of acquiring, holding and disposing of real and personal property used in the joint or cooperative undertaking in the event that the agreement does not or may not establish a separate administrative body or legal entity to conduct the joint or cooperative undertaking.   Any other necessary and proper matters.
MS Code § 21-25-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 25 - Fire Departments and Fire Districts|Interlocal Agreements Between Municipalities and Rural Water Associations|§ 21-25-57. Bonded and floating indebtedness; appropriations; supplying goods and services

 The governing authorities of any municipality entering into an interlocal agreement with a rural water association operating within the corporate limits of the municipality pursuant to Sections 21-25-51 through 21-25-59 may incur bonded and floating indebtedness, including general obligation indebtedness as authorized by Sections 21-33-301 through 21-33-329 and may appropriate funds for the purpose and in the manner prescribed by law without regard to whether the activities and improvements authorized under Section 21-25-51 to be financed by such debt or appropriation are within or without the corporate limits of the municipality. The governing authorities of the municipality may sell, lease, grant or otherwise supply goods and services to the rural water association which is a party to the interlocal agreement or the administrative body or legal entity created to operate the joint or cooperative undertaking.
MS Code § 21-25-59 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 25 - Fire Departments and Fire Districts|Interlocal Agreements Between Municipalities and Rural Water Associations|§ 21-25-59. Price of newly constructed or upgraded water system

 After a water system has been constructed or upgraded pursuant to the provisions of Sections 21-25-51 through 21-25-59, the municipality which reimbursed or paid a rural water system for the cost of such construction or upgrading shall not be charged with the costs of such construction or upgrade upon its purchase of the water system. The price of such newly constructed or upgraded water system shall be reduced by an amount equal to the costs paid by the municipality to the rural water system for such construction or upgrading of the water system.
MS Code § 21-27-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 27 - Public Utilities and Transportation|General Provisions|§ 21-27-1. No franchise or right to be exclusive, without compensation, or longer than 25 years

 No municipality shall have the power to grant to any person, firm or corporation any exclusive franchise or any exclusive right to use or occupy the streets, highways, bridges, or public places in such municipality for any purpose. No municipality shall grant, renew, or extend any such franchise, privilege or right, without compensation or for any longer period than twenty-five years.   The provisions of this section shall be applicable to all municipalities of this state, whether operating under a code charter, special charter, or the commission form of government, except in cases of conflict between the provisions of this section and the provisions of the special charter of a municipality, or the law governing the commission form of government, in which cases of conflict the provisions of the special charter or the statutes relative to the commission form of government shall control.
MS Code § 21-27-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 27 - Public Utilities and Transportation|General Provisions|§ 21-27-3. Poles, posts and wires

 The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power to grant the right for the erection of telegraph, electric light, or telephone poles, posts and wires along and upon any of the streets, alleys, or ways of the municipality, and change, modify, and regulate the same. However, such privilege shall not be exclusive, and no such privilege shall be granted for a longer term than twenty-five years.
MS Code § 21-27-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 27 - Public Utilities and Transportation|General Provisions|§ 21-27-5. Pipes, conduits and pipe lines

 The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power to grant to any person, corporation, or association, on such terms and conditions as the governing authorities may prescribe, the use of the streets, alleys and other public grounds for the purpose of laying, constructing, repairing and maintaining gas, water, sewer, or steam pipes, or conduits for electric light, telegraph and telephone lines, and pipe lines for the purpose of transporting crude oil, crude petroleum, kerosene, gasoline, and other commodities transportable by pipe line. However, such franchise, right-of-way or privilege of any character whatsoever shall not be granted for a longer period than twenty-five years, and such privilege shall not be exclusive.
MS Code § 21-27-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 27 - Public Utilities and Transportation|General Provisions|§ 21-27-7. Waterworks

 The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power to erect, purchase, maintain and operate waterworks, and to regulate the same, to prescribe the rates at which water shall be supplied to the inhabitants, and to acquire by purchase, donation or condemnation, in the name of the municipality, suitable grounds, within or without the corporate limits, upon which to erect waterworks, and also the right-of-way to and from such works and the right-of-way for laying water pipes within the corporate limits, and from such waterworks to the municipality, and to extend such right-of-way from time to time. The governing authorities shall have the power to contract with any person for the maintenance and operation of waterworks. Said authorities shall have the power to contract with any person for the erection and maintenance of waterworks for a term not exceeding twenty-five (25) years, fixing water rates in the contract subject to municipal regulations. A contract for the erection or purchase of waterworks shall not, however, be entered into until submitted to a vote of the qualified electors and approved by a majority of those voting. A contract for maintenance under which the person who will perform such maintenance is wholly or partially responsible for fixing water rates shall not be entered into until submitted to a vote of the qualified electors and approved by a majority of those voting. It shall be unlawful for any municipally owned waterworks to supply water free of charge, or in any amount less than the fixed charges, to any person, firm or corporation, except as is expressly authorized by law.
MS Code § 21-27-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 27 - Public Utilities and Transportation|General Provisions|§ 21-27-9. Testing of water, electric and gas meters; authority to prosecute persons for tampering with meters

 If, upon complaint of any citizen or citizens interested, the governing authorities of any municipality find that there is reasonable ground for believing that any meter or meters intended to measure or register the quantity of water, electric light or power, or gas supplied or furnished by any individual, company or corporation to the municipality or its inhabitants is or are measuring or registering incorrectly or excessively or is or are of a less candle power or degree of brilliancy than required by contract, such governing authorities may employ an expert, who shall examine and test said meter or meters, or said light or lights, as the case may be, and report back to said governing authorities, notice of the time and place of the proposed test or tests being first given to all parties interested. If such examination or test shall show the fact that said meter or meters measure or register incorrectly or excessively, or that said light or lights are of a less candle power or brilliancy than required by contract, then all expenses of such examination and test incurred by said municipal governing authorities shall be charged against and collected back from said individual, company or corporation supplying or furnishing such water, electric light or power, or gas, as the case may be, and such penalties may be imposed as the municipal ordinances may provide.   The governing authorities of any municipality are authorized to prosecute any person tampering with electric, gas or water meters as provided in Section 97-25-3.
MS Code § 21-27-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 27 - Public Utilities and Transportation|Municipally Owned Utilities|§ 21-27-15. Governing authorities may remove any commissioner for cause, but may not abolish the commission

 The governing authorities of such municipality shall have the power to remove any member of said commission for inefficiency or incompetency or any other cause, but the governing authority of any municipality which has created a commission under the terms of Section 21-27-13, shall not have authority to abolish the commission, or to diminish its powers, except by a vote of a majority of the qualified electors of such municipality at a special election, duly called and held for that purpose. However, nothing herein shall limit, alter, impair or in any way change the procedure prescribed for the sale or lease of a public utility system under Section 21-27-33.
MS Code § 21-27-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 27 - Public Utilities and Transportation|Municipally Owned Utilities|§ 21-27-19. Disposition of revenues by commission

 The commission shall devote all monies, derived from any source other than the issuance of bonds for purposes authorized by the laws of the State of Mississippi, to or for the payment of all operating expenses, including such items as are normally required of utilities for sales development; to or for the payment of all bonds and interest on outstanding revenue bonds, if any, of such systems; to or for the acquisition and improvement of the system contingencies; to or for the payment of all other obligations incurred in the operation and maintenance of the systems and the furnishing of service; to or for the creation and maintenance of a cash working fund or a surplus fund to be used for replacement, extension of systems, and emergencies. The balance of the revenues of said systems, if any, may be used for any other lawful municipal purpose and may be paid to the governing authorities of the municipality for distribution to the various municipal funds, or may be disbursed for said purpose by the said commission at the direction and request of the governing authorities of such municipality.
MS Code § 21-27-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 27 - Public Utilities and Transportation|Municipally Owned Utilities|§ 21-27-21. Commission to keep records of service furnished municipality

 The commission shall keep an accurate account and record of power, current, water, or other services furnished to all departments of the municipality.
MS Code § 21-27-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 27 - Public Utilities and Transportation|Municipally Owned Utilities|§ 21-27-25. Borrowing money for improvement, extension, repair or stockpiling fuel of system

 Any municipality which owns or operates any system, shall have the power and authority through its utilities commission to borrow money and issue its negotiable notes or certificates of indebtedness therefor, in an amount not to exceed ten percent (10%) of the gross revenues of the system in the last preceding fiscal year, in any calendar year, for the purpose of improving, repairing or extending any such system, or of stockpiling fuel for any such system, or systems, without the necessity of calling and holding an election upon such question or otherwise obtaining the consent of the qualified electors of the municipality, or giving any notice thereof. However, the utilities commission shall secure approval of the governing authorities of the municipality. In all cases where money is borrowed under the provisions of this section, the same shall be repaid within three (3) years and at no time shall the amount of money borrowed under this section exceed thirty percent (30%) of the gross revenues of the system for the last preceding fiscal year.