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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 5IoLl 9(c). Pel*ease Bousing Projects; —-- 1 Subject to the approval of ih© Public Service Com­mission, the Company will enter into contracts for the refund of the cost of constructing water meins, advanced by others to and within Defense Housing Projects, located in the present city limits of the City of Las Yegas, Wevada, but within a distance from the Company’s nearest existing water main, §q u a lbto not more than BO feet multiplied by the number of houses which such others agree with the Company to construct within such project. A De­fease Housing Project with the meaning of this rule is a project under which the party contracting with the Company constructs within a subdivision, the plat of which has been filed with the County Recorder of Clark County,Nevada, not less than twenty (BO) dwelling houses, but at least one dwelling house for each fifty (50) feet of such water mains constructed within such subdivision. Such contract shall provide that such water mains shall be constructed at the cost of the party con­tracting with the Company and under the supervision of the Company; that such water mains shall be owned, operated and maintained by the Company upon the com­pletion of the construction thereof and that the Company shall refund to the party contracting with the Company the cost thereof if end when said party shall have completed the construction of the number of houses required by said contract, within 24 months from the date of such contract. Such contract may contain other reasonable provisions not inconsistent with the other provision® of this rule. This rule shall remain in effect only during the present nation­al Haergeney. On May 29, 1943, the Commission issued its Suspension Order suspending the cancellation of Rule(c) for a period of sixty (60) day® from and after June 3, 1943, pending hearing and investigation. Hearing was held, June 16, 1943, at Las Yegas, Hevada, At the start of the hearing, applicant’s attorney read into the record their three-page letter of May 1, 1943, to the Commission, givingt (a) The reason for Eule(c) being incorporated into their regulations, which was for facilitating the emergency program for construction of homes for defense workers in Las Yegas. (b) The contracts entered into and about to be entered into with builders since the promulgation of Rule 9(c) on January 29, 1942, to date. The total of these contracts were for the building - 2 - 5-4 6-30 0M-