SCS/HB 1692 - This act modifies provisions relating to public water supply districts and sewer districts. PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY DISTRICTS - 247.060 & 247.080
Currently, public water supply districts each have a board of directors made up of 5 members, who are required to be voters of the district and reside in the district one year prior to their election, or if not a voter, shall have received service from the district for one year. Under this act, members of the bOard are required to be a voter of the district. Further, all contracts executed by the board shall conform to statutory provisions for such contracts.
SEWER DISTRICTS - 249.424
This act allows a sewer district created and organized under Chapter 249 to impose a fee of up to $36 per year for a lateral sewer service line repair program upon approval by a majority of voters in the district and the adoption of a resolution by the sewer district's board of trustees. Under the act, the fee cannot be imposed in any city, town, village, or the unincorporated area of a county that has already approved a fee for a sewer line repair program. Voters in such municipalities that already have the program are not eligible to vote on the question of whether the sewer district can impose the fee.
This act allows the county collector to add the lateral sewer service fee to property tax bills.
If a city, town, village, or the county had imposed a fee for a sewer line repair program, but later rescinded its fee after voters have authorized the sewer district to impose a fee, the sewer district can request approval from voters in the municipality or unincorporated area to impose its fee.
This provision was in the perfected version of SCS/SB 297 (2013) and is identical to SB 581 (2014).
MEGHAN LUECKE