Bill Text: CT SB00449 | 2012 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning Municipal Water Rates.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-04-25 - Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate [SB00449 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2012-SB00449-Comm_Sub.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 449
February Session, 2012		LCO No. 2497
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Referred to Committee on Energy and Technology
Introduced by:
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AN ACT CONCERNING MUNICIPAL WATER RATES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 7-239 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2012):

(a) (1) The legislative body shall establish just and equitable rates or charges for the use of the waterworks system authorized herein, to be paid by the owner of each lot or building which is connected with and uses such system, and may change such rates or charges from time to time. Such rates or charges shall be sufficient in each year for the payment of the expense of operation, repair, replacements and maintenance of such system and for the payment of the sums herein required to be paid into the sinking fund. No such rate or charge shall be established until after a public hearing at which all the users of the waterworks system and the owners of property served or to be served and others interested shall have an opportunity to be heard concerning such proposed rate or charge. Notice of such hearing shall be given, at least ten days before the date set therefor, in a newspaper having a circulation in such municipality. Such notice shall set forth a schedule of rates or charges, and a copy of the schedule of rates or charges established shall be kept on file in the office of the legislative body and in the office of the clerk of the municipality, and shall be open to inspection by the public. The rates or charges so established for any class of users or property served shall be extended to cover any additional premises thereafter served which are within the same class, without the necessity of a hearing thereon. Any change in such rates or charges may be made in the same manner in which they were established, provided, if any change is made substantially pro rata as to all classes of service, no hearing shall be required. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the sale of bottled water.

(2) No such legislative body of a municipality with a population greater than seventy thousand that operates a municipal waterworks system pursuant to this chapter and a municipal electric utility pursuant to chapter 101 shall establish any rate or charge for the use of such waterworks system that constitutes an increase of greater than ten per cent of the previous rate or charge for such use, without approval for such increase from the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	July 1, 2012	7-239(a)

ET	Joint Favorable
PD	Joint Favorable