§ 40.376

40-376. Payment responsibility; private water companies; sewer corporations For residential property of four or fewer units, a private water company or sewer corporation may not require payment of unpaid water and wastewater service rates and charges or sewer utility service rates and charges by anyone other than the person who has contracted with the private water company or sewer corporation to provide the service, who physically resides or resided at the property and who receives or received the service. A property owner, an immediate family member of the person who does not reside at the property or any other entity, at its sole discretion, may contract for water and wastewater service with a private water company or for sewer utility service with a sewer corporation and shall provide payment.