Posted on 09/07/2020 5:34:49 PM PDT by bitt
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said on Wednesday that he is authorizing the city to shut off utility service to properties where large parties and gatherings are held, CBS Los Angeles reports. Garcetti said that, starting Friday, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power will cut off water and power service in "egregious" cases where unpermitted large parties and gatherings take place.
The announcement came hours after City Councilman David Ryu introduced a motion to increase penalties for property owners who hold large house parties in violation of public health orders. It wasn't clear whether Garcetti's announcement was related to that motion.
In the motion introduced Wednesday, Ryu said property owners who skirt building and safety rules or city laws, such as the Los Angeles party house ordinance, are in violation of COVID-19 public health orders and the city's party house ordinance, which became law in 2018.
Under the proposal, penalties for large gatherings could include water and power shutoff, permit prohibitions and having a certificate of occupancy held or revoked for any "large, close-contact, largely maskless gatherings, in direct violation of City Emergency Orders and County Health Orders".
"Despite a pandemic that has killed thousands in Los Angeles, some homeowners are choosing to put everyone at risk by renting out their homes to massive house parties," Ryu said. "This is irresponsible bordering on deadly, and it must be stopped."
"Whether it takes shutting off utilities or revoking their permits, we must do what it takes to shut these party houses down," he added.
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No, they can not. I helped an elderly neighbor deal with a squatter, her son’s girlfriend. It took several months to evict the loser so she could sell her house and move into an assisted living facility. She was in her early 90’s at the time. We had to be extremely careful how we dealt with the squatter, or she could have sued the woman.
Very illegal....
Maybe.
They certainly seem to throw any care to the wind.
” — will continue indefinitely until it’s stopped ... by force!!”
It is getting worse because no one is doing anything about it. I heard an opinion that the first jack-booted Democrat politician that is found hanging from a tree will put a near end to this totalitarian crap.
“Atmospheric water generator by GENAQ. Get water from air.”
Works great in a city like Houston, where there is a lot of humidity. But no so much in a city like L.A., where it is built on top of a desert.
Also, it requires electricity, necessitating solar panels or similar source since the city is planning to cut that off too.
I really see how Russia has always wanted totalitarianism even at the expense of millions murdered but the USA seems to be turning into this psychotic entity also.
Should hang the whole dam works.
Last time I checked, these Americans were required by the State to pay their utility bills and in most cases paid on auto-pay.
Breach of Contract.
These people are really stupid. They will keep voting for these fascists.
Ummm... that’s not a great idea. Look up the WaterSeeker videos on YouTbe by Thunderfoot to see why condensers like that are a dumb idea.
Well if that happens some of them will get picked off.
Tyranny...plain and simple.
Yeah, and the system you posted about above is pretty much the same idea.
This is so wrong on so many levels. Government telling people what they can and can’t do in their own homes. Government taking away the right of free association. Government controlling water and electricity. Government making every decision for people until they no longer know how to be responsible. That’s gone on so long there’s no one left to be responsible in government.
There are pragmatic ways to make people disappear, and it ain’t magic.
It’s not a house party, its a protest. Or a hair salon.
White liberal ‘elites’ like Nancy Pelosi’s exempt from this ruling... only ‘the little people’ can’t party.
Make Owens Lake green again.
Let the Colorado River run free.
Turn off the pumps at the Edmundson Pumping Plant.
Dewater Los Angeles.
112 degrees in Woodland Hill on saturday. How many people are dying or left miserable because electric rates are way too expensive and people cannot afford the huge bill just to pay the fat gov’t pensions. Approx .19 + a kw and climbing.
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