No. SB 1188
Filed under Local Government.
Municipal Water and Sewer Utility Rates; Requiring a municipality to charge customers receiving its utility services in another municipality the same rates, fees, and charges as it charges consumers within its own municipal boundaries under certain circumstances, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDA municipality whose water or sewer utility serves customers in another 'recipient municipality' must charge them the same rates, fees, and charges as its own in-city customers, with no surcharge allowed.
For other extraterritorial customers not in a recipient municipality, the existing rules still apply: a city may mirror its in-city rate, or charge a 'just and equitable' rate with up to a 25 percent surcharge, capped at 50 percent combined.
Both surcharge options are now explicitly subject to the new recipient-municipality rule, so a city cannot use either one to charge a surcharge to a recipient municipality's customers.
AIA municipality whose water or sewer utility serves customers in another 'recipient municipality' must charge them the same rates, fees, and charges it charges its own in-city customers.
AIBoth the mirror-rate method's 25 percent surcharge and the equitable-rate method's 25/50 percent surcharge are now expressly written to give way whenever the new recipient-municipality rule applies, so neither can be used to surcharge those customers.
AICustomers outside a municipality's boundaries who are not in a recipient municipality remain subject to the unchanged surcharge structure, including the equitable-rate method's added charge of up to 25 percent.