121- Basic Review

I'm sorry. I apologize.  This is going to be very insulting to most of you. But one or two of you, and you know who you are, really need to read this.

This is water. It is clean.  It comes into our homes through pipes.  Some of us in Woodstock buy this water from the town of Woodstock.

This is wastewater.  It is dirty.  It leaves our homes through pipes.  Some of us pay the town to take our wastewater away.

Woodstock is a town with laws.  The laws are divided into chapters.  Chapter 245 pertains to wastewater.  Chapter 250 pertains to water. In Chapter 245, which is about wastewater, not fresh water, we find this:

§ 245-33. Properties divided by District boundary.

Those properties which are now divided by the District boundary line shall be considered to be wholly served by the District.

Notice how the number starts with "245"?  That is how we know it is part of Chapter 245, and therefore part of the wastewater law, not the water law.

If you try to find this same law in Chapter 250, meaning in the Woodstock Water Law, you will not find it, because it is not there. 

Well, I guess it's kind of confusing, and so perhaps it really IS a mistake somebody might make if there had not been years and years of attention, light, discussion, investigation, and debate in this subject. And also it is a mistake that somebody who is not a lawyer, and especially not the town's lawyer, might make.

Um...