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<section article="gpu" article_name="Public Utilities" number="25-206" title_number="25" title_name="Rates and Charges" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Benefit Charges">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This section applies only to a property owner:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>whose property does not abut a water main or sewer; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>who has not previously paid a benefit charge for the construction of the water main or sewer.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Commission:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>shall allow a property owner to connect to a nonabutting water main or sewer;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>shall classify the property and impose a front foot benefit charge to be paid by the property owner at the rate and for the same number of years as though the property abutted on a water main or sewer constructed in the year in which the connection is made;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>when the connection is made, shall place the property owner in the same position as to all charges, rates, and benefits as if the property abutted on a newly constructed water main or sewer;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>if a water main or sewer abutting on the property is subsequently constructed, may require the property owner to connect to the abutting line and discontinue service from the nonabutting line; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>while the property is in the same classification as when the nonabutting connection was made, shall allow the prior imposition of a front foot benefit charge to stand and may not impose a front foot benefit charge for the new abutting water main or sewer.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
