Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, establishes a process for a municipality that operates a sewerage system outside of its corporate boundaries and has imposed a moratorium on new sewer connections outside of its corporate boundaries for a period of five or more consecutive years to extend sanitary sewer service or allow sewer connection only to property located within an adjacency area if the property owner or developer agrees to pay, or the municipality assesses, a housing surcharge...

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The bill creates a procedure for municipalities that have barred new sewer hookups outside their limits for five or more years, allowing them to expand service or permit connections within a defined adjacency area if the owner pays a housing surcharge. It also changes the law so that certain notices must be given within ten business days instead of ten calendar days. The changes affect local utility districts, developers and property owners in Tennessee.

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