23. The capital costs related to the extension of a waterworks or sewer system carried out to serve a new person are paid by that person. The costs are added to the rate that the person in charge may then collect from the new person served, that corresponds to the rate in effect, at the time of the connection, for other persons served or, as the case may be, for other persons served of the category to which the person belongs.
The person in charge must, for the purposes of the second paragraph of section 13, take into account the sums collected from the new person served in the calculation of the new rate.
234-2018O.C. 234-2018, s. 23.