11. They have the authority to make sure inappropriate costs are not passed on to the rate payer . 12. He opposed the Owen County Kentucky-American water treatment plant that cost Fayette County rate payers $ 164 million. 13. Under the 1898 Local Government Act, the electorate to Dublin Corporation was expanded to include all rate payers . 14. We'd support a program that will in fact help the rate payers and people of Long Island ." 15. Once an all-weather road was provided, the line was seen as a burden on rate payers and closed in 1975. 16. The majority of the 59, 017 rate payers will be paying between 50 to 60 per cent more in rates. 17. Some companies have invested heavily in expensive facilities that their rate payers have been required by state commissions to pay for. 18. Under the law that created it, utilities are not allowed to show on bills how much the tax costs rate payers . 19. "We continue to be on record that that burden should not be borne by the American rate payers , " he said. 20. The hall has been used by the Darlington Progress Association ( now the Darlington Rate Payers Association ) since the 1920s.