The reason I'm asking is because the city of Redding is evicting people who have their utilities disconnected. There have been several newspaper articles over the past year regarding this matter. Apparently, when someone has their electricity shut off for failure to pay their bill, the city sends a code inspector out to evict them because its dangerous to use candles or generators.
I feel not only is this ridiculous, it's illegal. Isn't this extortion under color of authority? City owned utilities saying we must use their electricity or be evicted by the code inspector?

