7-13-4312. Authorization to furnish water and sewer services to persons located outside municipality.
7-13-4312. Authorization to furnish water and sewer services to persons located outside municipality. The city council of any city within Montana that owns and operates a municipal water system and/or a municipal sewer system to furnish water and sewer services to the inhabitants of such city as a public utility shall, in addition to all other powers, have power to furnish water from such water system and sewage services from such sewer system to the inhabitants or to any person, factory, industry, or producer of farm or other products located outside of the corporate limits of such city at reasonable rates filed by the city or town council and approved, when otherwise required by statute, by the public service commission. Such city council is further empowered to make collections for furnishing water and sewer services in the same manner as collections are made within the corporate limits.
History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 71, L. 1925; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 134, L. 1929; re-en. Sec. 5040.1, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 6, L. 1955; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 63, L. 1957; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 194, L. 1961; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 229, L. 1971; R.C.M. 1947, 11-1001(2).