(a) Requirement. The rates, assessments, and other charges for water and wastewater utility services furnished by the County, or for direct or indirect benefits accruing from the water and wastewater utility services, shall be fixed as prescribed in the Charter and this Code on a basis to provide gross revenues from the utility services sufficient to pay the amounts appropriated for the utility services from the current revenues of the utility services as outlined in § 4-11-104.
(b) Rule of construction. This section may not be construed to prevent inter-fund cash borrowing authorized by §§ 711(c) and 718(c) of the Charter; supplementary or emergency appropriations for the utilities as authorized by § 712 of the Charter; or appropriation of tax revenues to redeem a pledge of the full faith and credit of the County made under the Sanitary Commission Act or under § 4-10-103.
(1985 Code, Art. 6, § 8-105)