Comment by defrost
6 months ago
Somehow I doubt walking out to your breaker box and throwing the main switch is illegal.
I can't see any prosecution or charge resulting from never throwing it back on again, a day off is OK, so is a week, ...
Where there might be a problem is refusing to pay any connection charge for the X-monthly bill that now shows 0 units consumed.
Sounds like they'd need to throw the breaker and cancel any existing contract.
Who said anything about prosecution or charge? A building inspector will happily red tag your residence and the sheriffs will happily escort you out. Easy peasy.
In California it's going to vary city by city but there are typically interconnect requirements for single family homes and ADUs. You're welcome to go full sovereign citizen and the city or county is welcome to deem your house uninhabitable and use force to evict you.
> A building inspector will happily red tag your residence
For what? For not having power connected?
Are people not allowed to have (say) propane only homes in California?
Are you able to cite any relevant law here that requires a building to be connected to a power grid?
> For not having power connected?
Yes.
And folks in Florida. And Arizona. And Colorado. And wherever else. Building codes and HOAs exist and absolutely have their own standards for habitability. It's not that hard to turn up news articles of folks who run afoul of this.
In California it is/was the energy code that required connection to the grid. In Arizona where a house could easily reach unsafe temperatures without working A/C there's almost certainly a safety aspect to requiring a grid connection.
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