1. (a) This chapter applies to the following:

   1. (1) A public utility established to provide water service that is:

      1. (A) privately owned and serves less than three hundred (300) customers;
      2. (B) a not-for-profit utility (as defined by IC 8-1-2-125 (a));
      3. (C) a cooperative corporation exempt from state and federal income taxation; or

      4. (D) a conservancy district established under IC 14-33-2 that:

         1. (i) has as a purpose of the district the provision of a water supply, including the treatment and distribution of water, for domestic, industrial, and public use; and
         2. (ii) provides water service to less than three thousand (3,000) customers.

   2. (2) A public utility established to provide sewage disposal service (as defined in IC 8-1-2-89 (a)(1)) that holds a certificate of territorial authority as required by IC 8-1-2-89 , and that is:

      1. (A) privately owned and serves less than three hundred (300) customers;
      2. (B) a not-for-profit utility (as defined in IC 8-1-2-125 (a)); or
      3. (C) a cooperative corporation exempt from state and federal income taxation.
   3. (3) Except as provided in subsection (b), a legal entity providing only sewage treatment service to a not-for-profit sewage disposal company.
2. (b) Subsection (a)(3) does not include a sewage treatment provider that is otherwise subject to the commission's jurisdiction.

As added by P.L.82-1997, SEC.2 and P.L.80-1997, SEC.2. Amended by P.L.159-1999, SEC.2; P.L.78-2007, SEC.1; P.L.127-2026, SEC.3.