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<section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="2-401" title_number="2" title_name="General Provisions" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Water and Sewerage Systems">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Annual operating costs” include the cost of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the production, treatment, pumping, storage, transmission, and distribution of water and the maintenance and repair of equipment associated with these functions;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the collection, pumping, transmission, and treatment of wastewater, and the maintenance and repair of equipment associated with these functions;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>administrative overhead;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>debt service;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>depreciation; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>servicing customer accounts.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Lateral system construction costs” include:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>any cost necessary to plan, design, acquire, construct, inspect, test, and put into operation the lateral system to serve a State facility; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>any indirect cost incurred by the local jurisdiction that is necessary to construct water and sewer lines.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
