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Los Angeles, Juno 16, 1949 1-7334 Hr, A. f, Stoddard; LVLAWCo. M.# 9-A, approved by the ievada Public Service Commission, oororlog installation of voter main# to serve nev developments at too Vtges, provides; exclusive of the service pipe of each customer to to served (a© shown la Rule f of this Company's rules and regulations) the customer or customers stall «ator lato a contract.to advance oufflelont money to cover coat of aaklBg ouch extension. The amount advanced shall ho refunded to the applicants advancing sons at tho rato of 5Q$ of the customers* monthly tills for vator for i period of ton years, or until the full amount advanced has been rofuadod, whichever > oeouro first. All such rofuado shall ho aado by doduetiag the amount thereof from the customers* \ monthly vator bills.* Under this rul®, if so#oral applicant* rsouoot aa /extension and tho extension is less then SO foot per consumer, / the Water Company is obligated to construct the oxteaaioii with- I out coot to the consumers. However, ia the ease of a housing project, where the developer proposes to erect a number of I houses for sale or rent, we have required the developer to 1 advance the ooet of the saine subject to refund as provided la Hole 9-A. The rule has boon subject to considerable criti­cism by sub&ividera and developers of housing projects, as it asy take 10 years for the subdlvider or developer to recover his cost, and in some eases he will not obtain full refund. homes in Paradise Village Tf*aet, requiring bohajruotion of 8,900 feet of voter mains, estimated to cost 156,000, ana has requested refund of the entire deposit upon completion of an agreed u^on number of homes in the Tract, an arrangement elmll t© that in effect during the development of War Housing projec as covered by our former Rule 9-6, which read; “whenever an application for voter service is received which will require the Company to extend its water mains or service pipes more than fifty feet Homellinl Construction Co. proposes to construct 300