71.400. Cities may maintain joint fire departments.

Cities may maintain joint fire departments.

71.400. Any two or more cities, towns or incorporatedvillages, whether of the same class or not and whether contiguousor not, may enter into a joint contract to acquire, install andoperate a fire department for the joint benefit and protection ofthe property situated in said contracting municipalities and thelives of the inhabitants thereof, and to erect and maintain atsuch place as may be agreed upon a building for the housing ofsaid fire department.

(RSMo 1939 § 7391)

Prior revision: 1929 § 7240

CROSS REFERENCE:

Cooperation with other political subdivisions, on public improvements or facilities, RSMo 70.210 to 70.320