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Two utilities are owned by a player. Another player lands on chance and the chance card directs the player to pay ten times the role of the dice to the utilities owner. Is the player also obligated to pay "rent" for landing on the utility in addition to the payment indicated on the chance card?
The card says:
Advance token to nearest Utility. If unowned, you may buy it from the Bank. If owned, throw dice and pay owner a total ten times the amount thrown
Do what is written on the card.
Advance token to nearest Utility. If unowned, you may buy it from the Bank. If owned, throw dice and pay owner a total 10 times the amount thrown.
The card does move the player without a roll and demands a specific payment to a specified player, altering normal behavior. So just the alternate, always x10, payment from the roll.
You pay rent exactly once for the utilities when moving with the chance card.
First, the chance card text is clearly intended as a replacement effect for the rent you would normally pay. The evidence for this is the use of the word "total" to indicate the amount that you pay, and the parallel language to the railroad chance card, which says:
Advance token to the nearest Railroad and pay owner twice the rental to which he/she is otherwise entitled. If Railroad is unowned, you may buy it from the Bank.
Second, the utilities charge you rent based on the roll that brought you to them. In this case, you didn't make a roll to get to the utility in question (you were moved by a chance card), so the rent you would pay based on your movement is 0.
Thus, the only rent you pay is for the roll you make because of the chance card.
