Sequoyah County Rural Water District No. 7 v. Town of Muldrow

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• considering evidence regarding rural water district’s physical capacity to provide disputed customers with both potable water and with fire protection
• focusing primarily on whether water association \has proximate and adequate ‘pipes in the ground’ with which it has served or can serve the disputed customers within a reasonable time\
• comparing the legal right to provide services with the legal duty to do so
• “To hold that a legal duty is sufficient . . . would be contrary to the language of the statute.”
• utility must demonstrate “ ‘that it has adequate facilities within or adjacent to the area to provide service to the area within a reasonable time after a request for service [has been] made’ ” as well as legal right to serve
• citation the disputed area.” Adams County Reg’l Water Dist. v. Vill. omitted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).