TITLE 7. LOCAL GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER 33. FIRE PROTECTION

Part 41. Municipal Fire Departments

Fire Department Authorized And Required

7-33-4101. Fire department authorized and required. In every city and town of this state there must be a fire department, which must be organized, managed, and controlled as provided in this part except that a third-class city or town may contract for fire protection services or consolidate its fire department with another fire protection provider created under this part.

History: En. Sec. 1, p. 73, L. 1899; re-en. Sec. 3326, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 5109, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 5109, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 4, L. 1937; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 97, L. 1947; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 151, L. 1947; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 73, L. 1949; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 2, L. 1965; R.C.M. 1947, 11-1901(part); amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 96, L. 1997.