Law on Establishment of Rural Water and Sewerage Companies.

This Law provides for giving authority to the Ministry of Agriculture (Jahad) to set up companies in each province in order to maintain, operate, develop, renovate, repair and establish facilities related to drinking water supply in villages, including treatment plants, transmission lines, tanks, control systems and sanitary disposal of wastewater. These companies shall perform duties based on the general regulations governing the governmental companies and are financially independent. The Ministry of Agriculture shall provide facilities, machineries and equipments needed for water supply and related service in each province. The government shall consider costs for maintenance, fixing and development of relevant infrastructures in its annual budget. The companies subject to this law are non beneficiary and are exempted from tax payment. The statute of these companies shall be approved by the Board of Ministers. This Law consists of 5 Articles.