Attorney General Opinions 
Relating to County Government

2014 Utilities

• The fact that a city imposes a water and sewage rate on customers outside its corporate limits that is twice the rate charged to customers within its corporate limits does not by itself establish that the higher rate is invalid.  The rate is presumptively valid and a party seeking to challenge it bears the heavy burden of proving that the rate is not just and equitable.  Opinion No. 14-46 (April 14, 2014).

• An annexing municipality, if and to the extent that it chooses to provide the services, has the exclusive right to provide water and/or wastewater services in any territory that it annexes, even if the area annexed is with the service area of a Wastewater and Treatment Authority. Opinion No. 14-19 (February 14, 2014).

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