Opinion ID: 1848077
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Heading Rank: 2

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Text: The facts in this case were stipulated. Loxley owns and operates a water distribution system which is the sole source of water for industrial and domestic use within its corporate limits. Rosinton is a duly constituted authority organized pursuant to § 11-88-1, et seq., Code 1975. Rosinton has a designated service area of approximately 110 square miles which bounds Loxley on its north, east and west sides. Rosinton does not provide water service to any part of its service area at the present time and has not arranged financing for construction of a water service system. It has, however, completed a substantial portion of the engineering work and feasibility study necessary to the completion of its water system. Loxley desires, and intends, to expand its water system so as to provide water service outside its corporate limits. A portion of the area which would be served by Loxley's expanded water system lies within Rosinton's designated service area. After Loxley had arranged financing for its water system expansion, Rosinton filed this action and obtained a permanent injunction preventing Loxley from providing water service within Rosinton's service area. The judgment granting that injunction reads in pertinent part as follows: It is, therefore, ORDERED, ADJUDGED and DECREED by the Circuit Court of Baldwin County, Alabama, as follows: 1. The Town of Loxley, a Municipal Corporation, its agents, employees, servants or contractors, is permanently enjoined from expanding its water system so as to provide water service within the Rosinton Water, Sewer and Fire Protection Authority's service area shown by the record in this matter. 2. The Town of Loxley may solicit residents of the Rosinton Water, Sewer and Fire Protection Authority's service area to determine if these residents desire Loxley's water service and may conduct water user's surveys in the Authority's service area without violating the terms of this injunction; and it may lay, construct and maintain water transmission lines within said area, but may not serve customers from such lines.