11.10.140 Service outside City limits | Millersburg Municipal Code

11.10.140 Service outside City limits.

(1) Application for Service. Each application for service outside the City may be acted upon on its merits without regard to any other past or present application or service. If service is approved, the cost of service connection fees plus applicable rates will be those charges and regulations set forth and approved by the Council and the same as they may be amended from time to time, unless otherwise set forth in a service contract.

(a) Service Limitation. The utility shall not provide water service to any property outside the City limits when such property is contiguous to the City limits and eligible for annexation to the City.

(b) Users. No use and benefits of the water system shall be extended to or made available to any property outside the City limits, except under contractual agreement with the owners of said property, and only then when the property is not contiguous to the City at the time water service is requested.

(c) Contract. Use and benefits of the water system may be granted to property owners outside of the City limits on a contractual basis only.

(i) Except for contracts with another public agency, the contract shall require that, in order to continue to receive water service, the property owner shall annex the property to the City at the earliest date that the property becomes eligible for annexation under the laws of the State.

(ii) A contract for water service may further require provisions for financing of the water extensions, annexation of property served by contract to a public agency, termination of the service contract if any conditions are not met, and any other requirements which are deemed in the best interest of the utility.

(a) All customers receiving water from the utility shall comply with and be bound by these rules and regulations.

(b) Customers shall cooperate to a reasonable and practical extent with other customers with regard to the extension or enlargement of common facilities. (Ord. 68 § 1, passed 2-19-1991; Code 2014 § 50.14)