SEC. 19-5-151. Incorporation of districts.

(1) Any contiguous area situated within any county of the state, and not being situated within the corporate boundaries of any existing municipality, and having no adequate water system, sewer system, garbage and waste collection and disposal system, or fire protection facilities serving such area, may become incorporated as a water district, as a sewer district, as a garbage and waste collection and disposal district, as a fire protection district, as a combined water and sewer district, as a combined water and garbage and waste collection and disposal district, as a combined water and fire protection district, or as a combined water, sewer, garbage and waste collection and disposal and fire protection district, in the manner set forth in the following sections.

(2) Any contiguous area situated within any county of the state, not situated within the corporate boundaries of an existing municipality and being served by a nonprofit, nonshare corporation chartered under the Mississippi Nonprofit Corporation Act for the purpose of owning and operating rural waterworks, may become incorporated as a water district in the manner set forth in Section 19-5-153(3). If the nonprofit, nonshare corporation's certificated area lies in more than one (1) county, the procedure in Section 19-5-164 shall be used.

SOURCES: Codes, 1942, Sec. 2998.7-21; Laws, 1972, ch. 536, Sec. 1; 1973, ch. 493, Sec. 1, eff from and after passage (approved April 16, 1973). Amended by Laws 1999, Ch. 394, Sec. 1, HB2833, eff. from and after effectuation under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended and extended.

PREVIOUS VERSIONS: Pre-1999