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Title 52 - PUBLIC UTILITIESPart I - Public Utility CommissionSubpart C - Fixed Service UtilitiesChapter 56 - STANDARDS AND BILLING PRACTICES FOR RESIDENTIAL PUBLIC UTILITY SERVICESubchapter E - TERMINATION OF SERVICE
NOTICE PROCEDURES PRIOR TO TERMINATION
Section 56.99 - Use of termination notice solely as collection device prohibited

52 Pa. Code § 56.99

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Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 24, June 15, 2024
Section 56.99 - Use of termination notice solely as collection device prohibited

A public utility may not threaten to terminate service when it has no present intent to terminate service or when actual termination is prohibited under this chapter. Notice of the intent to terminate shall be used only as a warning that service will in fact be terminated in accordance with the procedures under this chapter, unless the customer or occupant remedies the situation which gave rise to the enforcement efforts of the public utility.

52 Pa. Code § 56.99

The provisions of this § 56.99 adopted June 16, 1978, effective 6/17/1978, 8 Pa.B. 1655; amended October 7, 2011, effective 10/8/2011, 41 Pa.B. 5473.

The provisions of this § 56.99 amended under the Public Utility Code, 66 Pa.C.S. § § 1401-1419.

This section cited in 52 Pa. Code § 56.16 (relating to transfer of accounts); 52 Pa. Code § 56.81 (relating to authorized termination of service); and 52 Pa. Code § 56.118 (relating to right of public utility to petition the Commission).