Can the city make you vacate your homedue tono electricity?
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Can the city make you vacate your homedue tono electricity?
I own my home in AR and we just received a 48 hour notice to vacate due to no electricity. However we use inverters and a generator, have lanterns and candles and a refrigerator and water (but no gas). I do not want to use the city’s power company. Is it legal for them to say we have to leave?
Asked on August 24, 2011 Arkansas
Answers:
FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 13 years ago | Contributor
You first need to read the notice requiring you to vacate your home due to no electricity carefully and whether it is simply a request, pursuant to some court order, or some governmental regulation and the factual basis for this notice.
If the notice is that the city wants all of its inhabitants to have electricity and your home is off the grid with its own electrical supply where lights and power will be supplied to your home when most homes will be without power, there would be no factual basis for you to leave your home or real need from my read of your question.
You should simply call the governmental entity that sent you the notice to vacate due to no electricty and ask if the notice applies to homes off the grid.
Good luck.
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