7-3-4312. Effect of organization of communities into single municipal district. (1) Whenever any group of communities shall become a single municipal district under the provisions of this law, the commissioners elected at the first election shall have the same functions and authority and municipal procedure in all respects shall be the same as is provided in this law where single communities, cities, or towns adopt the commission-manager form of government, and the terms of all municipal officers in any prior city or town which may be included in such new municipal district shall in like manner cease and terminate as soon as the commissioners shall by resolution so declare, and the corporate functions and existence of any such prior municipal corporation may in like manner be terminated by said commissioners when the need for the further existence of such prior corporation shall be at an end.
     (2) Whenever any group of communities, including one or more incorporated cities or towns, shall become a single municipal district under this law, such municipal district shall bear the same name as the principal incorporated city or town in such district.
     (3) Whenever any group of communities, including one or more incorporated cities or towns, shall become a single municipal district under this law, the corporate property of each such city or town shall become the property of the new municipality, but improvements paid for in whole or in part by special assessments upon abutting property within special improvement districts shall not be deemed municipal property within the meaning of this law to the extent of payments so made. If such prior city or town shall have an unpaid indebtedness, the commissioners of said new municipality elected at the first municipal election shall inventory and appraise or cause to be inventoried and appraised all of such property, and if the amount of the indebtedness of such prior city or town shall exceed the inventory value of the property surrendered to the new municipality by such prior city or town, then the excess of such indebtedness over the inventory value of said property shall be a charge only against the taxable property within the limits of such prior city or town and shall be paid by levy upon such property alone.

     History: (1)En. Sec. 121, Ch. 152, L. 1917 added by Sec. 6, Ch. 44, L. 1919; re-en. Sec. 5517, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 5517, R.C.M. 1935; Sec. 11-3333, R.C.M. 1947; (2)En. Sec. 122, Ch. 152, L. 1917 added by Sec. 6, Ch. 44, L. 1919; re-en. Sec. 5518, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 5518, R.C.M. 1935; Sec. 11-3334, R.C.M. 1947; (3)En. Sec. 123, Ch. 152, L. 1917 added by Sec. 6, Ch. 44, L. 1919; re-en. Sec. 5519, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 5519, R.C.M. 1935; Sec. 11-3335, R.C.M. 1947; R.C.M. 1947, 11-3333, 11-3334, 11-3335.