§54-63  Rates.  The board of water
supply may fix and adjust rates and charges for the furnishing of water and for
water services so that the revenues derived therefrom shall be sufficient to
make the waterworks and water systems self-supporting and to meet all
expenditures authorized by this part; the board may establish variable rates
among the several districts of the county, or among the areas served by the
individual water systems within the county, for the purpose of establishing
charges as closely as possible to the necessary amount required for the
maintenance and operation of the particular individual water systems; provided
no rates and charges shall be fixed or adjusted prior to the holding by the
board of a public hearing, public notice of which shall have been given not
less than twenty days before the date set for the hearing.  The notice shall
state the time and place for the hearing and the proposed rates and charges to
be considered thereat.  The time within which the notice shall be given shall
be computed by including the first day (the day of notice) and excluding the
last day. [L 1949, c 86, §13; am L 1951, c 159, §1; RL 1955, §146-112; am L
1965, c 96, §92; HRS §54-63; am L 1998, c 2, §22]



 



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  Administrative procedure, see chapter 91.