Missouri § 77.190 - May purchase fire-fighting equipment.
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§ 77.190. May purchase fire-fighting equipment.
The council may also purchase fire engines, hook and ladder outfits, hose and hose carts, buckets and all other apparatus useful in the extinguishing of fires, and organize fire companies, and prescribe rules of duty for the government thereof, with such penalties for the violation thereof as they may deem proper, not exceeding one hundred dollars, and to make all necessary expenditures for the purchase of such fire apparatus and the payment of such fire companies.
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(RSMo 1939 § 6950)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 6804; 1919 § 8291; 1909 § 9228
Source: official Missouri text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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