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Introduction -- Right To Utility Service -- Tenant Strategies For Maintaining Service -- Metering Issues: Metering Errors, Master-metering, Submetering, Prepayment Meters, Advanced Meters -- Payment Issues: Payment, Security Deposits, And Late Charges -- Grounds For Termination Of Utility Service And Termination Protections -- Utility Affordability Programs: Description And Implementation -- The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (liheap) -- Weatherization And Energy Efficiency Programs -- Utility Allowances In Subsidized Housing -- Telecommunications -- Affordable Water Service -- Bankruptcy Issues: When Either The Consumer Or Landlord Files For Bankruptcy -- Manufactured Homes And Utility Service -- Due Process Protections For Municipal And Rec Customers: Unregulated Deliverable Fuels -- Appendices. Charles Harak, Olivia Bae Wein, Jenifer Bosco, John Howat; Contributing Authors, Emily Green Caplan, Geoff Walsh, John Van Alst. Subtitle For Previous Editions: Regulated, De-regulated And Unregulated Utilities, Deliverable Fuels, And Telecommunications. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.