Senator Garcãa pointed out that the law stipulates that the exemption from the collection of reconnection or restoration fees occurs if the cause of the suspension or reduction is solely due to the delay in the payment of bills, and specifies that this provision does not increase or decrease the collection of the fixed fee for the consumption of public services at home. In accordance with the provisions of Article 96 of Law 142 of 1994, the legal basis for this investigation is not to enrich the service providers, but to cover the costs incurred by the companies to develop the activity. National public service providers are required to suspend the service for users who are unable to pay the invoice within the time limit set in the contract under uniform conditions or, failing that, within the period set in the standard, i.e. two billing periods if they are bimonthly and three periods if they are monthly. The law, passed during the last plenary plenary debate, was drafted by liberal Senator Lidio Garcãa, who said: “We have taken a decisive step in our struggle so that our compatriots do not continue to be victims of the dominant and abusive position of public service companies. In a few days, millions of families from the most vulnerable classes will benefit from this advantage. Utility providers cannot charge users for reconnection or reinstallation if the service has not been effectively suspended or cannot be proven, the national utility regulator said. Faced with this problem, it should be recalled that he presented an initiative to Congress to amend the law in the direction of abolishing the fee for the resumption and resumption of public services at home. However, some procedural errors ordered by the Constitutional Court were not corrected, so the initiative was declared unenforceable. That body pointed out that such charges would be levied only in cases where the service had actually been suspended, since its legal basis was not to enrich the undertakings, but to enable them to recover the costs which they would have incurred as a result of the takeover. Therefore, it should be clarified that the utility will not be able to charge users a sum of money for reconnection if the service has not been effectively suspended.

Yesterday evening, during the final debate, the House of Representatives approved in plenary session the bill amending Law 142 of 1994 by abolishing the fee for the resumption and resumption of public services at home, as long as the service has been effectively suspended or reduced for reasons attributable to the user and/or subscriber. (Read: Removal of utility reconnection charges, to a debate on the law) IMPORTANT: By reading, opening, copying or downloading any legal document or asset accessible directly or indirectly from the www.redjurista.com Website, you agree to be bound by the terms of this Agreement; If you do not agree with the terms of this contract, please immediately close all added documents or legal assets and contact Avance Jurídico Casa Editorial Ltda. for a full refund of the amount paid for viewing the publications. To verify that you have accepted the terms of this Agreement, simply indicate the IP address from which you accessed www.redjurista.com, the document or added value you first read, opened or viewed, and the date you did so. By posting or uploading materials and adding legal assets, you also agree to be bound by the terms of this Agreement. This document contains the legal conditions for the use of the publications contained in the Internet address www.redjurista.com hereinafter RedJurista- relating to the following aspects: – Use of legal documents with legal assets added by Avance Jurídico Casa Editorial Ltda., hereinafter Legal Advance. – Use of the legal values added by those who consult the legal documents published by Avance Jurídico. – Use of legal documents published by persons other than Avance Jurídico. – Responsibility for legal development for the publication of documents and legal values added to them.

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