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(d) Water and sewer service provided to the tax-
exempt entity and not otherwise recovered
through user fees or other charges;

 
(e) Sanitation services provided to the tax-
exempt entity and not otherwise recovered
through user fees or other charges; and

 
(f) Any services other than education and
welfare provided to the tax-exempt entity and
not otherwise recovered through user fees or
other charges.

 
(2) The establishment of service charges is not
mandatory, but rather is at the discretion of the
municipality in which the exempt property is located.
The municipal legislative body shall determine those
institutions and organizations on which service
charges are to be levied by charging for services on
any or all of the following classifications of tax
exempt real property:

 
(a) Residential properties currently totally exempt
from property taxation, yet used to provide
rental income. This classification shall not
include student housing or parsonages.

 
If a municipality levies service charges in any of the
classifications of this subparagraph, that
municipality shall levy these service charges to all
institutions and organizations owning property in
that classification.

 
(3) With respect to the determination of service
charges, appeals shall must be made in accordance
with an appeals process to be provided for by
municipal ordinance. Appeals concerning the assessed
value of any property against which a service charge
is levied must be undertaken in accordance with
subchapter 8.

 
(4) The collection of unpaid service charges shall must
be carried out in the same manner as provided in
Title 38, section 1208.

 
(5) Municipalities shall use the revenues accrued from
service charges to fund, as much as possible, the
costs of those services reduce the municipality's tax
commitment as provided in section 709-C.


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