BOSTON WATER & SEWER COMM. v. METROPOLITAN DIST. COMM.


408 Mass. 572 (1990)

562 N.E.2d 470

BOSTON WATER AND SEWER COMMISSION vs. METROPOLITAN DISTRICT COMMISSION & others (and two companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

November 13, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laura Steinberg (Katherine J. Ross with her) for the plaintiff.

Douglas H. Wilkins, Assistant Attorney General, for Metropolitan District Commission & others.

Steven H. Goldberg for Massachusetts Water Resources Authority.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., ABRAMS, NOLAN, & GREANEY, JJ.


NOLAN, J.

In these consolidated cases we are asked to resolve the relationship between the Boston Water and Sewer Reorganization Act of 1977 (St. 1977, c. 436) and G.L. c. 59, § 20A (1988 ed.). At issue is whether the Boston Water and Sewer Commission (BWSC) is entitled to the protection of c. 59, § 20A,2 with respect to assessments imposed upon it for sewerage services provided by...

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