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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 3-5 Setting rates and charges.">
  <section prefix="§" num="3-5" heading="Setting rates and charges.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">It shall be the duty of the Director of Finance and the Director of Public Works to recommend, and the duty of the Board of Estimates to:<para num="(1)">establish rates and charges to make each utility financially self-sustaining at all times; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">adjust the rates if the projected profit and loss statement for the current year anticipates a loss and the actual results for the immediate prior year resulted in a loss or deficit.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Recovery of prior losses.">The rates so established shall be at a level sufficient to recover any accumulated loss from prior years.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Costs, depreciation, etc.">In order to make and assure that each utility is financially self-sustaining, there shall be provision for:<para num="(1)">operating and maintenance costs;</para>
      <para num="(2)">depreciation accruals;</para>
      <para num="(3)">amortization of bonds; and</para>
      <para num="(4)">reasonable accumulation of surplus.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Classes of users.">Charges shall be made to various classes of consumers including but not limited to domestic, commercial, industrial, and municipal government and other governmental users of the services of water and sanitary wastewater utilities.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 29, §21A(b), (c)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 78-941</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
