Nabors, Giblin & Nickerson, P.A., has many years of hands-on experience in the daily representation of water and wastewater utility systems for Florida governments.

NG&N provides legal guidance in the creation of government-owned water and wastewater utility systems including situations in which a government has entered the utility business through acquisitions of investor-owned utilities. Such experience includes the gamut of utility issues including the drafting of enabling utility ordinances, structuring utility rate policies, and obtaining regulatory compliance. NG&N also has assisted county governments in the regulation of privately-owned utilities operating within their borders.

NG&N represents the Florida Governmental Utility Authority (the "FGUA") as Utility Counsel in its management of major water and wastewater utilities owned by the FGUA. The formation of the FGUA was a creative and novel response to the desire of local governments to acquire utility systems located in multiple Florida counties.

NG&N also possesses a demonstrated and unique expertise in the development and implementation of legally defensible water and wastewater developer agreements, refundable advance agreements, connection fees, special assessments and other techniques which may be used to grow a government’s utility business.

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