Water rates not to be a source of revenue

1. Law
2. District of Columbia Code
3. Public Utilities
4. Water Supply, Assessments, and Rates
5. General Provisions
6. Water rates not to be a source of revenue

The water rates levied in the District of Columbia shall never be a source of revenue other than as a means of keeping up to said District a supply of water but shall constitute a fund exclusively for the maintenance, management, and repair of the system of water distribution.

(R.S., D.C., § 198; July 12, 1876, 19 Stat. 87, ch. 180, § 18; Feb. 25, 1885, 23 Stat. 319, ch. 145.)

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 43-1531.

1973 Ed., § 43-1522.

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