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Committee advances bill requiring landowner notice before out-of-jurisdiction water projects
Summary
The House Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications Committee voted to advance a bill that would require municipal water utilities to notify landowners and local jurisdictions before extending service or infrastructure beyond a utility’s jurisdiction; the panel adopted an amendment specifying notice contents and a 30-day window to request a meeting, and passed the measure 12-0.
A House Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications Committee advanced a bill that would require municipal water utilities to notify affected property owners and the local jurisdiction when a project would extend service or infrastructure outside the utility’s jurisdiction.
Representative Slager, the bill’s sponsor, told the committee that, as amended, “the bill with the amendment is just dealing with a notification of a water utility operating outside its jurisdiction… notifying those property owners in advance of what’s going on so that the first notice isn't an eminent-domain notice.” He said the amendment also removes a requirement to publish notice in a newspaper and asks the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) to include any resulting project…
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