§ 2-401. Definitions

   (a) In general. -- In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.

(b) Annual operating costs. -- "Annual operating costs" include the cost of:

   (1) the production, treatment, pumping, storage, transmission, and distribution of water and the maintenance and repair of equipment associated with these functions;

   (2) the collection, pumping, transmission, and treatment of wastewater, and the maintenance and repair of equipment associated with these functions;

   (3) administrative overhead;

   (4) debt service;

   (5) depreciation; and

   (6) servicing customer accounts.

(c) Lateral system construction costs. -- "Lateral system construction costs" include:

   (1) any cost necessary to plan, design, acquire, construct, inspect, test, and put into operation the lateral system to serve a State facility; and

   (2) any indirect cost incurred by the local jurisdiction that is necessary to construct water and sewer lines.

HISTORY: An. Code 1957, art. 78A, § 54; 1985, ch. 11, § 2.