Questão jurídica principal
Whether a bathing pond not connected to the water supply is subject to a municipal water connection fee.
Decisão extraída
No. A pond that is not connected to the public water supply and is mainly fed by rainwater and clean wastewater is not subject to the connection fee.
Fundamentação extraída
The municipal supplement for bassins may only fill a genuine gap in the cantonal fee system. Here, the pond was not dependent on the water supply, unlike a conventional swimming pool. Extending the fee to such an unconnected, rainwater-fed facility would blur the line to non-fee-bearing garden features and exceed the permissible scope of the municipal regulation.