Senate committee advances bill requiring service continuation and allowing taps to existing gravity sewer lines

The Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee on April 9 adopted a committee amendment and recommended Senate Bill 11-38 for passage after a floor of questions about municipal authority and technical details.

Sponsor Senator London Taylor introduced the measure and its amendment, saying, "This bill does 2 things. 1, it says that, in a municipality, that has operated a sewage system outside of its corporate limits for more than 25 years, that it can't stop, again, it can't stop the sewage service, without, a study that shows that they lacked the capacity to do so. And the second thing, and probably more importantly, is, this provides for a land owner who has existing gravity line, gravity sewer line on their…