2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 66 - PUBLIC UTILITIES
Chapter 15 - Service and Facilities
1522 - Applicability of subchapter.

     § 1522.  Applicability of subchapter.
        (a)  General rule.--This subchapter applies to public
     utilities as defined in paragraph (1)(i) and (ii) of the
     definition of "public utility" in section 102 (relating to
     definitions) and to public utility service rendered by those
     public utilities if the premises served constitute residential
     buildings as defined in section 1521 (relating to definitions).
        (b)  Municipal service beyond corporate limits.--
            (1)  Public utility service being furnished or rendered
        by a municipal corporation, or by the operating agencies of
        any municipal corporation, beyond its corporate limits shall
        be subject to the provisions of this subchapter establishing
        the procedures, rights, duties and remedies for the
        termination of service to landlord ratepayers.
            (2)  Tenants and landlord ratepayers of a dwelling unit
        in residential buildings or mobile home parks receiving
        public utility service being furnished or rendered by a
        municipal corporation, or by the operating agencies of any
        municipal corporation, beyond its corporate limits shall be
        subject to the provisions of this subchapter establishing the
        procedures, rights, duties and remedies for the termination
        of service, the right of the tenants to withhold rent, the
        prohibition of waiver and the prohibition against retaliation
        by the landlord ratepayer with respect to the public utility
        service.
     (July 2, 1993, P.L.379, No.54, eff. 60 days)

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