[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Meeting of the Town of Harvard
as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 5-2-1967 STM by Art. 9]
The Water Commissioners shall be empowered and authorized to
adopt regulations for the establishment of water rates and charges
for water and services furnished by the Town and for the collection
of the same, including the periodic billing of customers, at least
semiannually, said regulations to be consistent with the laws of the
Commonwealth and not in violation thereof, and notice of the same
to be given to the residents of the Town by posting in two or more
public places, 30 days before the effective date thereof.
[Adopted 3-31-1979 ATM by Art. 11]
Any owner of land which receives benefit from the laying of
water pipes in public or private ways upon which his land abuts or
which by more remote means receives benefit through the supply of
water to his land or buildings shall pay a proportionate part of the
cost not already assessed of extending such water supply to his land.
The amount to be charged against each parcel of land receiving such
benefit shall include the cost of pipes and other material and of
the labor in laying them and other expenses incidental thereto and
shall be ascertained, assessed and certified by the Water Commissioners.
