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<section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="9-635" title_number="9" title_name="Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Sanitary Commissions">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>“Contracting party” means the other party to a contract made by a district under this section.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>“Contracting party” includes:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>A person;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>A county of this State or any other state;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>A municipal corporation of this State or any other state;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>This State or any other state;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="5">
          <text>The United States;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="6">
          <text>Any instrumentality of this State, any other state, or the United States; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="7">
          <text>Another district of this State or any other state.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Contracting party’s system” means any of the following systems owned or operated by a contracting party:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A sewerage system.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A solid waste acceptance facility.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>A solid waste disposal system.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>A water system.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>If its sanitary commission approves, a district may make a contract with a contracting party:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>To buy services from the contracting party’s system;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>To use the facilities of the contracting party’s system; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>To allow a contracting party or its customers to use the services or facilities of the district.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Any contract made under this section:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Shall require that the fees, rates, or charges collected under the contract be sufficient to pay the obligations of the contracting party; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>May allow a contracting party to collect from its customers the fees, rates, or charges due under the contract.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>A contract made under this section is for the benefit of holders of the district’s bonds.</text>
  </level>
</section>
