West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 150 - Public Service Commission › Title 150 - EXEMPT LEGISLATIVE RULE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION › Series 150-35 - Rules Governing Innovative, Alternative Sewer Systems › Section 150-35-5 - Notice of availability of Innovative, Alternative Sewage Disposal Service

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
5.1. Public service
				districts and municipal sewer utilities.
5.1.a. Publication and personal service
				required, generally. -- When Innovative, Alternative Sewage Disposal Service is
				made available to customers in an area that has not previously been served by
				the municipal sewer utility or public service district, the municipal sewer
				utility or public service district shall publish a notice in a newspaper of
				general circulation in the area affected and provide notice by personal service
				to customers in the area affected.
5.1.b. When publication is not required. --
				Publication is not required when Innovative, Alternative Sewage Disposal
				Service is extended to a single customer at the customer's request.
5.1.c. Notice by publication. -- The
				municipal sewer utility or public service district shall publish notice of the
				availability of Innovative, Alternative Sewage Disposal Service once a week for
				two consecutive weeks, with the second notice being published at least thirty
				(30) days prior to the date that the municipal sewer utility or public service
				district intends to begin billing for services.
5.1.d. Notice by personal service. -- The
				municipal sewer utility or public service district shall provide notice to all
				potential customers either by certified mail, return receipt requested, by
				personal service with signed and dated receipt, or by posting a notice on the
				premises. If the premises to be served is not inhabited by the owner, notice
				shall be given to the owner by certified mail, return receipt requested, in
				addition to giving notice to the inhabitant of the premises. In the event that
				the municipal sewer utility or public service district is not able to effect
				personal notice after a good faith effort, or if the municipal sewer utility or
				public service district believes that the requirements of this section create
				an undue hardship, the municipal sewer utility or public service district may
				petition the Commission for a waiver of the requirements to provide personal
				notice.
5.1.e. Notice requirements.
				-- Both the published and personal notice shall state, at a minimum, the
				following information:
5.1.e.1. that sewer
				services are available
5.1.e.2. the
				date that the municipal sewer utility or public service district will begin
				billing for sewer services
5.1.e.3.
				the municipal sewer utility's or public service district's rates
5.1.e.4. that the municipal sewer utility may
				petition the circuit court to compel connection to the sewer system, or that W.
				Va. Code §
											16-13A-9
				authorizes the public service district to petition the circuit court to compel
				connection to the sewer system
5.1.e.5. the location and telephone number of
				the municipal sewer utility's or the public service district's business
				office
5.1.e.6. the amount of the
				bill to be rendered by the municipal sewer utility or by the public service
				district as provided by W. Va. Code §
											16-13A-9,
				in the event a customer does not connect to the system.