Book
2 Copies for in-library use
- CENTRAL: Law Library
- CENTRAL: Law Library [SUPPL. 2010]
Access to utility service : regulated, de-regulated and unregulated utilities, deliverable fuels, and telecommunications
Call Numbers
- LAW 343.091 H254 (CEN)
- LAW 343.091 H254 SUPPL. 2010 (CEN)
Edition
4th ed.
Publication Information
Boston, MA : National Consumer Law Center, c2008.
Physical Description
xxviii, 788 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Notes
Rev. ed. of: Access to utility service / Margot Saunders. 2nd ed. 2001.
Contents
- Overview of regulated utilities and deliverable fuels
- The regulations of telephone services and telecommunications
- Right to utility service; security deposits
- Tenant strategies to obtain service when landlord fails to pay utility
- Metering issues: metering errors, master metering, sub-metering, pre-payment meters and advanced metering
- Payment issues: payment, late charges, budget billing plans, and deferred payment plans
- The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
- Utility allowances in subsidized housing
- Utility affordability programs: description and implementation
- Weatherization
- Termination of utility service
- Bankruptcy issues: when either the consumer or landlord files for bankruptcy
- Manufactured homes and utility service
- Special due process and billing protections for municipal and REC customers.