Chapter 417 of the Acts of 2004 AN ACT AUTHORIZING WATER SUBMETERING IN RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: SECTION 1. Subsection (4) of section 15B of chapter 186 of the General Laws, as appearing in the [&hellip
BRIEF SUMMARY: Water submetering would transfer water bills from owners to tenants through proportional billing according to actual submetered water usage. Water conservation among the tenant population could reach 25% to 30% reduction in water usage – and save taxpayers the huge costs of new water and sewage treatment plants in the future – but [&hellip
Water submetering bill passes Useless for small owners Worse yet: just-cause eviction & back-door rent control On December 16, Governor Mitt Romney signed the Water Submet-ering bill into law, over the strenuous objections of SPOA, which was excluded from drafting the bill. Backing the bill, however, were the Greater Boston Real Estate Board (GBREB) and the [&hellip