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The 193rd General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE TOWN OF NORTON WATER AND SEWER COMMISSION.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:

SECTION 1. Notwithstanding section 16 of chapter 83 of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, the water and sewer commissioners of the town of Norton, or other board or officer of the town acting as sewer commissioners, may from time to time establish just and equitable annual charges for the use or availability of common sewers, which shall be paid by every person who enters, or has an entitlement to enter by means of an allocation of wastewater treatment facility capacity, his particular sewer therein. The money so received may be applied to the payment of the costs of maintenance and repairs of the sewers, of any debt contracted for sewer purposes or of any payment, including capital cost payments, due to another municipality under an inter municipal agreement to provide wastewater disposal and treatment or due to a regional wastewater authority. The water and sewer commissioners may promulgate regulations to implement this act.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved July 23, 2009