Bill Text: MO HB2079 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows a specified sewer corporation to contract with a water district or municipality to terminate water service for non-payment of a sewer bill
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-05-13 - Placed on Informal Calendar [HB2079 Detail]
Download: Missouri-2014-HB2079-Introduced.html
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE FUNDERBURK.
6334H.01I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 393.015, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to terminations of water services.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 393.015, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 393.015, to read as follows:
393.015. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any sewer corporation, municipality or sewer district established under the provisions of chapter 249 or 250, or sections 204.250 to 204.470, or any sewer district created and organized pursuant to constitutional authority, may contract with any water corporation, any municipality providing water, or any water districts established under chapter 247, which for purposes of this section shall collectively be designated as a water provider, to terminate water services to any customer premises for nonpayment of a sewer bill. No such termination of water service may occur until thirty days after the sewer corporation, municipality or statutory sewer district or sewer district created and organized pursuant to constitutional authority sends a written notice to the customer, except that if the water corporation is performing a combined water and sewer billing service for the sewer corporation, municipality or sewer district, no additional notice or any additional waiting period shall be required other than the notice and waiting period already used by the water corporation to disconnect water service for nonpayment of the water bill. Acting pursuant to a contract, the water [corporation] provider shall discontinue water service until such time as the sewer charges and all related costs of termination and reestablishment of sewer and water services are paid by the customer.
2. A water [corporation] provider acting pursuant to a contract with a sewer corporation, municipality or sewer district as provided in subsection 1 of this section shall not be liable for damages related to termination of water services unless such damage is caused by the negligence of such water [corporation] provider, in which case the water [corporation] provider shall be indemnified by the sewer corporation, municipality or sewer district. Unless otherwise specified in the contract, all costs related to the termination and reestablishment of services by the water [corporation] provider shall be reimbursed by the sewer corporation, municipality, sewer district or sewer district created and organized pursuant to constitutional authority.
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