House File 79

                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  JOCHUM


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                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the jurisdiction of the utilities board to
  2    regulate rates and services of water distributed from a
  3    privately owned water well.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  5 TLSB 1486HH 80
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PAG LIN

  1  1    Section 1.  Section 476.1, unnumbered paragraph 5, Code
  1  2 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    This chapter does not apply to waterworks having less than
  1  4 two thousand customers, municipally owned waterworks, joint
  1  5 water utilities established pursuant to chapter 389, rural
  1  6 water districts incorporated and organized pursuant to
  1  7 chapters 357A and 504A, cooperative water associations
  1  8 incorporated and organized pursuant to chapter 499, or to a
  1  9 person furnishing electricity to five or fewer customers
  1 10 either by secondary line or from an alternate energy
  1 11 production facility or small hydro facility, from electricity
  1 12 that is produced primarily for the person's own use.  This
  1 13 chapter shall apply to privately owned water wells that supply
  1 14 water to more than two, but fewer than thirty, customers, if a
  1 15 water rates board governing water rates=related issues of the
  1 16 privately owned water well has not been established, with at
  1 17 least a majority of the board members consisting of existing
  1 18 customers of the water well, which has the jurisdiction, at a
  1 19 minimum, to approve or disapprove water rate increases and to
  1 20 provide final and binding decisions for water rates
  1 21 complaints.
  1 22                           EXPLANATION
  1 23    This bill relates to the jurisdiction of the utilities
  1 24 board to regulate rates and services of water distributed from
  1 25 a privately owned water well when the well supplies water to
  1 26 more than two, but fewer than 30, customers.  The bill
  1 27 provides that, in such cases, the utility board shall have
  1 28 jurisdiction if a water rates board governing water rates=
  1 29 related issues of the privately owned water well has not been
  1 30 established, which has the jurisdiction, at a minimum, to
  1 31 approve or disapprove water rate increases and to provide
  1 32 final and binding decisions for water rates complaints.
  1 33 LSB 1486HH 80
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  1 35