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Question: I am a landlord and have a question about my legal rights to be notified by the power company (SSVEC) before they shut off service because the Tennant did not pay their electric bill. The signed rental contract gives permission to the power company to notify me of a pending shut off. They have this agreement on file. It gets below freezing here and this puts our units at risk of having frozen or bursting water lines. Also the smoke detectors are disabled. I never want the utilities turned off on the apartments because of this. They just shut off the power for 10 days before I'm aware.

Answer: You may wish to speak with an attorney about this. If SSVEC has failed to adhere with its stated service conditions – e.g., https://www.ssvec.org/wp-content/uploads/Approved-Service-Conditions-April-2015.pdf – then you may have some recourse.