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Originally Posted by ninetoone
I hear a lot of places have (or are beginning) legislation to ban cutting off someone's electricity/gas when the temp rises above 95 degrees, etc...have you seen this?
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we had this discussion this morning if we should do them or not.. wash. dc does not cut-off above 95* i do know that one.
i work for a city govt. the public service commission has different rules for us than for private companies. it's actually tougher for us to do CON-P's so we have to do them when we can. april 1- oct 31 we have few restrictions. nov 1- march 31 we can do CON-P's but we have to jump through hoops. they have to be notified 2 times. once is the termination bill, second is a 24hrs notice hand delivered. then we have to notify the PSC, if they ok it, we then have a 10 day window to do the disconnect, it must stay above 32* for about 24hrs after. each states PSC regs are different. Pennsylvania has a regulation i love for us to have. in Pa. if a tenant is evicted or skips out and owes a electric bill. the owner has to pay the bill to have service restored, then fight with the tenant to get the money. a Pa. town 30 miles to our north has a 90% collection rate and doesn't have near the trouble we do. they've not had the "trash" and slumlords move into their town and the regulation is part of the reason.