Water and sewerage systems outside municipalities
193(1)Where a water or sanitary sewerage system or both have vested in the Minister under section 55 of the
Community Planning Act, the Minister shall operate the system on a user-charge basis and may, where both systems have vested, establish separate or joint rates therefor.
193(2)Subsections (4), (5), (6), (8), (9), (10), (14) and (15) of section 189 apply
mutatis mutandis to the operation of a system under this section.
193(2.1)Notwithstanding subsection (2), the owner of land within the subdivision upon which there is no building connected with the system shall pay a charge to be determined by the Minister, such charge to be as near as possible to what the user-charge would be if there was a building on the land connected with the system; and for purposes of this section such charge shall be deemed to be a user-charge.
193(3)A user-charge levied under this section is a debt due the Crown.
(a)
convey a system described in subsection (1) to a municipality, the boundaries of which are extended to include the subdivision; and
(b)
otherwise transfer or alienate a system.
1972, c.60, s.13; 1973, c.60, s.13; 1981, c.52, s.18; 1986, c.8, s.83; 1987, c.6, s.68; 1989, c.55, s.39; 1992, c.2, s.40; 1998, c.41, s.78; 2003, c.27, s.63