“I guess if you lose your license due to a DUI, you lose your water service too.
Of course, a water bill will help establish residency when you re-apply for a driver’s license. Just a birth certificate isn’t enough.
Now if you’re from Georgia and have a Georgia driver’s license and move to Alabama, you’ll have to go to the DMV and switch. Of course, they’ll ask for proof of residency. A utility bill will do. Except that you can’t get water service without an Alabama driver’s license.”
Exactly. If this was about deporting people, then they would simply deport them. No, this is about government control over the basic functions of life. You need to ask the government permission to turn on your water.
Nobody sees the problems in this? Nobody here is worried that all it takes is some obstructive bureaucrat to cut your water off?
Meanwhile, renting from someone who does have all of the above solves the problem for you, and doesn’t address the problem of illegal immigrants.
Hold it Ben. I had to show a valid DL in Phoenix when I moved from Knoxville. Knoxville required a BC 30 yrs ago. This isn’t anything new. The falsifying has caused the crackdown. The process had holes but it has always been there. Don’t get suckered in on this lefty crap.
“Meanwhile, renting from someone who does have all of the above solves the problem for you, and doesn’t address the problem of illegal immigrants.”
Landlords should never put ANY utilities under their own name. It makes you liable for the bills the tenant racks up. ALWAYS make sure the rental has its own meters for everything and that the tenant gets the utilities turned on in their OWN name.
If it turns out you rented to a nice clean-cut individual who turns out to be an indoor pot farmer, his grow lights and watering systems can generate thousands of dollars in bills per month. Or, if he illegally bypasses the meters, there are fines in the tens of thousands of dollars that YOU are liable for when they are eventually discovered.