§ 2710. Special powers with regard to water facilities. The authority\nshall have power:\n 1. to acquire, construct, purchase or lease, in the name of the\nauthority, any water facility, water supply system, water distribution\nsystem, including plants, works, instrumentalities or parts thereof and\nappurtenances thereto, lands, easements, rights in land and water\nrights, rights-of-way, contract rights, franchises, approaches,\nconnections, dams, reservoirs, water mains and pipe lines, pumping\nstations and equipment, wells or any other property incidental to and\nincluded in such system or part thereof, and any improvements,\nextensions and betterments, situated within the participating counties\nfor the purpose of supplying water for domestic, commercial and public\npurposes within the participating counties to any person, the state, any\npublic corporation or the United States; and as a means of so acquiring\nfor such purposes, the authority may purchase all of the assets of any\nexisting privately owned water corporation or company;\n 2. to have and take ownership, jurisdiction, control, possession and\nsupervision of any existing water system and to construct and develop\nany water facility including any water supply system or water\ndistribution system, including plants, works, instrumentalities, or\nparts thereof, and appurtenances thereto, dams, reservoirs, water mains,\npipe lines, pumping stations and equipment, wells, or any other property\nincidental to or included in such system or part thereof within the\nparticipating counties and to acquire, by condemnation, as provided in\nthis section or otherwise lands, easements, rights of land, and water\nrights and rights-of-way within the participating counties; or to\npurchase or lease lands, easements, rights in land, and water rights and\nrights-of-way in connection therewith within the participating counties\nand to own and operate, maintain, repair, improve, reconstruct, enlarge\nand extend, subject to the provisions of this title, any of its\nproperties acquired or constructed under this title, all of which,\ntogether with the acquisition of such properties are hereby declared to\nbe public purposes;\n 3. to establish a schedule of rates, rentals or charges, to be called\n"water rents," to be collected from all real property served by its\nwater facilities, and to prescribe the manner in which and the time at\nwhich such water rents are to be paid, provided that in no event shall\nthe authority collect rents within any city within a participating\ncounty, and to change such schedule from time to time as may be deemed\nadvisable. Such water rents may be determined by the authority on any\nequitable basis. Prior to the final adoption or modification of such\nschedule of water rents, the authority shall adopt a proposed schedule\nof such water rents and publish notice thereof once a week for three\nsuccessive weeks in each participating county served by the authority's\nwater facilities. The notice so published shall be dated as of the date\nof first publication thereof and shall state that the proposed schedule\nof water rents will remain open for inspection in the office of the\nauthority for thirty days from the date of such notice, and that\nobjections thereto may be filed during said period with the authority by\nany person conceiving himself aggrieved thereby. The authority shall\nhear and examine any such complaints and may modify the proposed\nschedule and shall adopt a final schedule of water rents within sixty\ndays after the date of said notice. The schedule of water rents so\nadopted shall thereafter be the water rents to be charged all real\nproperty served by the sewer facilities of the authority. From and after\nthe due date thereof, such water rents shall constitute a lien upon the\nreal property served by the facilities. In the event that any such water\nrent shall remain unpaid for a period of ninety days, the authority, or\nfor property within
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