§ 36-9-23-6 — Contracts

(a) The board may enter into all contracts or
agreements necessary or incidental to the performance of its duties and
the execution of its powers under this chapter. However, the board may
not obligate itself or the municipality beyond the extent to which
money has been or may be provided under this chapter.
(b) A contract relating to the financing of the acquisition or
construction of any sewage works, or to any trust indenture authorized
by this chapter, is not effective until it is approved by the municipal
legislative body.
(c) A contract or an agreement with any contractor or contractors for
labor, equipment, or materials shall be let and entered into under the
statutes governing the letting of contracts by agencies of municipalities.
(d) The board or any public utility (as defined in IC 8-1-6-3)
contracting with the board for the treatment, purification, or disposal
in a sanitary manner of liquid and solid waste, sewage, night soil, or
industrial waste may contract with a water utility furnishing water
service to users or property served in the municipality or by the public
utility to do the following:
(1) Ascertain the amount of water consumed.
(2) Compute the amount of the charge to be billed for sewer
services to each user or property served.
(3) Bill and collect the amounts due for sewer services.
(4) Discontinue water service to delinquent sewer users.
A contract under this subsection is enforceable without the approval of
the Indiana utility regulatory commission.
(e) The procedures in IC 36-9-25-11.5(a) through IC 36-9-25-11.5(e) apply to the discontinuance of water service to a
delinquent sewer user under a contract between the board and a water
utility described in subsection (d).
[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 19-2-5-5
part.]
As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.96. Amended by
P.L.27-1995, SEC.7; P.L.34-1999, SEC.6.