12. Water rates not to be a source of revenue. The water rates levied in the District of Columbia shall never be a source of revenue other than as a means of keeping up to said District a supply of water but shall constitute a fund exclusively for the maintenance, management, and repair of the system of water distribution. (R.S., D.C., § 198; July 12, 1876, 19 Stat. 87, ch. 180, § 18; Feb. 25, 1885, 23 Stat. 319, ch. 145.) Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 43-1531. 1973 Ed., § 43-1522.
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