Sub-Metering

The 2019 Oregon Legislative Session wrapped up shortly after 5:30 pm yesterday (June 30, 2019). Four significant pieces of legislation passed over the weekend impacting manufactured home communities. The four bills are summarized below. In the weeks to come MHCO will be doing extensive articles on the legislation, forms will be updated and they will be covered extensively at the MHCO Annual Conference in Eugene October 28-29th.

Question: I have two questions regarding submetering.  When a community completes the submetering and the tenant is paying back the community for the meter and cost of installation, who owns and maintains the meters from that point on?  The second question is that we have a community that was metered when it was built but the community is on a master meter and paying for water and sewer.  The community wants to give the notices to the tenants regarding submtetering but keep the current meters and not charge the tenants at this time for the cost of metering.  If the community chooses to upgrade the meters at a later date, can we then pass the cost on to the tenant?