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Here in New Orleans they take your meter if you report a leak and you can’t get it back for a couple weeks and thousands in reconnection fees because they don’t

Here in New Orleans they take your meter if you report a leak and you can’t get it back for a couple weeks and thousands in reconnection fees because they don’t trust people’s plumbers apparently and have to reinspect everything themselves

throwaway0a5e 5y ago
> and thousands in reconnection fees because they don’t trust people’s plumbers apparently and have to reinspect everything themselves That makes my regulatory capture spidey senses tingle in several different ways.
- selimthegrim 5y ago
  The New Orleans City Council regulates them, not the state. Not sure if the city Building and Permits office (which has had its own travails) gets involved in this.