Tenants, Not Landlords, Responsible for Building Electricity, Council Says

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LEWISTON - Landlords won't be held responsible if tenants fail to pay their electricity bills, city councilors said Tuesday.

A crowd of 30-plus Lewiston landlords urged councilors to discard a policy enacted after 9-year-old Taylor McQueeney was killed last August when her River Street apartment building burned. Fire officials blamed the blaze on candles used to light a room in the building after the tenants stopped paying the electric bill and the electricity was turned off.

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Tenants, Not Landlords, Responsible for Building Electricity, Council Says

Code Enforcement Director Gil Arsenault said his staff began placarding buildings where the power is turned off,...

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