California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Hansen v. City of San Buenaventura, 167 Cal.App.3d 900, 213 Cal.Rptr. 859 (Cal. App. 1985):
However, there have been several examples where discrimination against nonresident water users has not been countenanced. In City of Montgomery v. Greene (1913) 180 Ala. 322, 329-330, 60 So. 900, 902 the court ruled that once a municipality attempts to supply water beyond its corporate limits, it must be with uniformity and without discrimination. A different rate fixed wholly upon corporate lines as the line of demarcation, in the absence of physical differences, was an unreasonable classification. 8
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