361 - Service beyond territorial limits.

§  361.  Service  beyond  territorial limits. 1. Whenever a surplus of  such public utility service exists over the amount thereof  required  by  the  municipal  corporation and the residents thereof, such municipality  may sell such surplus outside  the  municipal  corporation  to  persons,  public or private corporations or other municipal corporations. Any such  municipal corporation, by agreement with any other municipal corporation  which  is  authorized  to exercise the powers specified in the preceding  section, may extend such service to  such  other  municipal  corporation  under  such  terms  and  conditions  as  may be agreed upon between them  provided that if at the time of such extension, a public utility service  is actually being furnished in such other  municipal  corporation,  such  extension  shall  not  be  effected  without  the approval of the public  service commission.    2.  Agreements  may  also  be  made  between  two  or  more  municipal  corporations,  authorized  as  provided  in this article to exercise the  powers specified in the preceding  section,  for  the  joint  ownership,  leasing, construction, acquisition, use or operation of a public utility  service,  within  the  combined  territorial  limits of such contracting  parties. The method of operation of and the rates, rentals  and  charges  for  such  service and the procedure for their collection shall be fixed  by such agreements.