Sec. 7. Subject to section 6(c) of this chapter, upon the commission‘s approval of a public utility’s plan under section 6 of this chapter, the water utility may include the actual costs incurred by the public utility in connection with completing customer lead service line improvements that:

(1) have been placed in service; and

(2) have not been included in the public utility’s rate base in the public utility’s most recent general rate case;

as eligible infrastructure improvements for purposes of IC 8-1-31. For purposes of the revenue limitation calculation under IC 8-1-31-13, infrastructure improvement costs associated with customer lead service line improvements shall not be counted as adjustment revenues in determining whether the water utility’s total adjustment revenues exceed ten percent (10%) of the water utility’s base revenue level approved in the water utility’s most recent general rate case.

As added by P.L.91-2017, SEC.8. Amended by P.L.137-2020, SEC.5.