1[The Authority] may by bye-laws provide for requiring any consumers or class of consumers to deposit such sums as may be specified therein as security for prompt payment of its dues and due performance of the conditions subject to which services are rendered to them. It shall be lawful for 2[the Authority] to recover its dues from the amount so deposited.
<span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><sup>1</sup>[The Authority] may by bye-laws provide for requiring any consumers or class of consumers to deposit such sums as may be specified therein as security for prompt payment of its dues and due performance of the conditions subject to which services are rendered to them. It shall be lawful for <sup>2</sup>[the Authority] to recover its dues from the amount so deposited.<br>