Sec. 1. If the commissioner finds it is in the interest of the health, safety, convenience, and welfare of the residents of an area, a person may be ordered to connect to or receive and treat sewage from any other person or from an industry, a shopping center, a mobile home community, or a housing development when the service and use will not:

(1) result in irreparable injury to the receiving equipment; or

(2) make impossible the provision of the service previously provided to the users of the equipment.

[Pre-1996 Recodification Citation: 13-7-15-1(a) part.]

As added by P.L.1-1996, SEC.8. Amended by P.L.87-2005, SEC.1.