Section 15-407. RESPONSE REQUIRED FROM EVERY TENANT

 

407.1In cases where the utility company has indicated that individual metering of less than the entire building is not feasible and all the tenant responses indicated that they wish to receive service in their own name and to have installed at their own expense individual meters, the utility shall make an effort to contact every tenant who has not responded.

 

407.2This effort pursuant to §407.1 shall include at least two (2) attempts to contact those tenants on the telephone and where both those attempts fail, a field representative shall make a personal visit to the tenant's apartment.

 

407.3If no contact is made during the visit either with the tenant or any other responsible person on the premises, a field representative shall leave a notice reasonably calculated to be seen by the person residing in the apartment stating that the tenant should contact the utility within three (3) working days if he or she wishes to receive service in his or her own name.

 

407.4In those instances where it is "practicable" to provide individual meters for the entire building and all tenants have not agreed to accept service by individual meters in their own names within ten (10) days from the delivery of the Statement of Practicability the individual meter option shall be revoked. Tenants may still receive service in their own name individually under the utility's fair and equitable share proposal, as approved by the Commission.

 

source

Final Rulemaking published at 28 DCR 3329, 3337 (July 24, 1981).