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Surcharge Constitutes Rate Discrimination
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1988.tb03129.x
Subject(s) - duty , law , purchasing , economics , political science , law and economics , demographic economics , business , operations management
An Illinois appellate court ruled that Chicago, Illinois, violated its common‐law duty not to charge unreasonable or discriminatory water rates by requiring purchasing municipalities to pay Chicago a 50 percent surcharge on any sale to nonresident consumers.