Source: http://legislature.maine.gov/legis/statutes/33/title33sec593-A.html
Timestamp: 2019-12-08 19:20:08
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Title 33, §593-A: Utility billing for time-share estates
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A. "Assessment" means any rate, fee or charge assessed or imposed by a utility for the provision of its service to time-share units, other than service that is metered or otherwise measured and billed on an individual time-share owner basis. [PL 2003, c. 526, §1 (NEW).]
B. "Utility" means a public utility as defined in Title 35-A, section 102, sanitary district established under Title 38, chapter 11 or sewer district as defined in Title 38, section 1032, subsection 3 or 4. [PL 2013, c. 555, §5 (AMD).]
[PL 2013, c. 555, §5 (AMD).]
[PL 2003, c. 526, §1 (NEW).]
A. The utility shall provide the managing entity a combined or total utility bill and any additional information that may be reasonably useful for the managing entity to allocate the cost of utility service to the time-share owners. [PL 2003, c. 526, §1 (NEW).]
B. The managing entity shall maintain an escrow account with a financial institution licensed by the State and deposit any money collected or received for the utility's assessments in the escrow account within 10 days after collection or receipt. The escrow account must be established in the names of both the managing entity and the utility. A withdrawal may not be made from the escrow account without the written agreement of the utility. [PL 2003, c. 526, §1 (NEW).]
(2) At the request of the utility, the managing entity shall provide a list identifying the delinquent owners and their interests, including periods of ownership, and the utility may proceed to collect the assessments from those interests as allowed by law. If the utility uses any lien procedure available to it under law to collect delinquent assessments on time-share estates, any required notice of the lien that the utility sends to a time-share estate owner must also be given to the managing entity or left at the managing entity's last and usual place of abode or the utility must send to the managing entity by certified mail, return receipt requested, either a copy of the notice sent to the time-share estate owner or a notice that lists all time-share estate owners to whom notices have been delivered. For sending the notice or notices to the managing entity, the utility may receive $5 plus all certified mail, return receipt requested fees and the cost of any photocopying. [PL 2003, c. 526, §1 (NEW).]
PL 2003, c. 526, §1 (NEW). PL 2013, c. 555, §5 (AMD).