Sec. 6. (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.
Structure Indiana Code
Article 9. Transportation and Public Works
Chapter 23. Municipal Sewage Works
36-9-23-0.1. Application of Certain Amendments to Chapter
36-9-23-1. Application of Chapter
36-9-23-3. Supervision and Control
36-9-23-7. Board; Operation of Works
36-9-23-8. Board; Restoration of Works
36-9-23-9. Board; Authority Relating to Employees; Payment of Expenses
36-9-23-12.5. User Moving to New Residence; Forwarding Final Bill
36-9-23-13. Preliminary Expenses; Payment From General Fund; Repayment From Bond Proceeds
36-9-23-15. Acquisition of Property Subject to Lien or Other Encumbrance
36-9-23-19. Bonds; Actions to Contest Validity; Limitations
36-9-23-20. Bonds; Disposition of Proceeds; Lien of Holders or Trustee
36-9-23-21. Bonds; Sinking Fund
36-9-23-22. Bonds; Security by Trust Indenture Permitted; Terms of Indenture
36-9-23-23. Bonds; Enforcement Rights of Holders; Receivership
36-9-23-24. Fees; Municipality Subject to Fees of Sewage Works
36-9-23-26. Fees; Hearing; Notice; Adoption; Readjustment
36-9-23-26.1. Objections to Rates and Charges; Bonds; Hearings
36-9-23-27. Fees; Collection Upon Commencement of Construction; Amount
36-9-23-28.5. Unclaimed Overpayments of Sewer Fees Becoming Property of Municipality
36-9-23-31. Fees; Nonpayment; Delinquency Penalty; Civil Action to Recover
36-9-23-34. Liens; Foreclosure; Attorney's Fees
36-9-23-36. Municipal Powers; Areas Outside Corporate Boundaries