(a) If the Town has budgeted funds for such an extension within the fiscal year that the applicant files for a permit, then the Town may, but is not required to, bear the costs of the extension, and a permit may be issued without the applicant bearing the costs.

(b) If the Town has not budgeted funds for such an extension within the fiscal year of the application, the applicant shall pay the costs of such extension before a permit may be issued. A person who has paid the costs of an extension to the main or trunk lines of the waterworks or sewage works may be reimbursed according to the relative lot frontages of water-using properties abutting the extension, on a pro rata basis, from persons who are subsequently given permits to tap onto that extension, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 15, Article 13 of this Code. The Town Manager shall ensure such reimbursement by conditioning the issuance of subsequent permits to tap onto the extension on the payment of a pro rata share of those costs. In no event however, shall the Town or the Town Manager be liable for failing to ensure the reimbursement, or for the reimbursement. (Prior code 13.04.080)