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D.C. Municipal Regulations (Last Updated: September 13, 2017) |
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Title 15. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CABLE TELEVISION |
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Chapter 15-3. CONSUMER RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES |
Section 15-300. PURPOSE AND APPLICABILITY
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300.1Technological changes, new federal and District of Columbia laws, and the actions of the Public Service Commission have created competitive natural gas, electricity and telecommunications service markets in the District of Columbia providing residential consumers with new choices. Consumers have access to an array of competitive Service Provider services as well as continued access to the regulated services of Utilities. The purpose of this chapter is to set forth residential consumer rights, responsibilities and rules for the initiation and acquisition of services, such as, but not limited to Meter reading, Billing, Deposits, Disconnections and Reconnections of service and the resolution of Complaints between residential consumers and a Utility, Energy Supplier or Telecommunications Service Provider.
300.2This chapter applies to those Residential Services regulated by the Public Service Commission (“Commission”) provided by Electric, Natural Gas and Telephone Utilities, and Residential Services provided by Energy Suppliers and Telecommunications Service Providers licensed or certified by the Commission.
300.3No residential Customer shall be discriminated against or penalized by a Utility, Energy Supplier or Telecommunications Service Provider for exercising any right granted by this chapter.
300.4Utilities, Energy Suppliers or Telecommunications Service Providers shall not discriminate against any Customer based wholly or partly on the race, color, creed, national origin, geographic location, sex, or sexual orientation of the Customer or for any arbitrary, capricious, or unfairly discriminatory reason.