Any municipality located within the area, whether the municipality has a fire department or not, may be included in the rural fire district if twenty percent of the landowners within the municipality who are also registered voters within the municipality sign a separate petition from that municipality, or if the governing body of the municipality establishes intent by passing a resolution so indicating.

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Source: SL 1971, ch 208, § 1; SL 1973, ch 226, § 2; SL 1992, ch 60, § 2; SL 1998, ch 36, § 29; SL 2002, ch 144, § 5.