Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Virginia
utilities
I live in a rental unit with it's own gas meter, the gas has been turned off for years.........
is it law that i purchase heating gas?
Asked on 7/22/08, 5:51 am
1 Answer from Attorneys
Michael Hendrickson
Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson
Re: utilities
There is undoubtedly a housing code which applies to your particular rental unit and which requires that the unit be appropriately heated when occupied by a tenant, but I would doubt that there is any requirement that the heating must necessarily be supplied by natural gas.
Answered on 7/22/08, 1:35 pm