Access to utility service : disconnections, metering, payments, telecommunications, and assistance programs / Charles Harak, Olivia Bae Wein, Jenifer Bosco, John Howat ; contributing authors, Emily Green Caplan, Geoff Walsh, John Van Alst.
Subtitle for previous editions: "regulated, de-regulated and unregulated utilities, deliverable fuels, and telecommunications". Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Right to utility service -- Tenant strategies for maintaining service -- Metering issues : metering errors, master-metering, submetering, prepayment meters, advanced meters -- Payment issues : payment, security deposits, and late charges -- Grounds for termination of utility service and termination protections -- Utility affordability programs : description and implementation -- The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) -- Weatherization and energy efficiency programs -- Utility allowances in subsidized housing -- Telecommunications -- Affordable water service -- Bankruptcy issues : when either the consumer or landlord files for bankruptcy -- Manufactured homes and utility service -- Due process protections for municipal and REC customers : unregulated deliverable fuels -- Appendices.
Series:
The Consumer credit and sales legal practice series
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