At Facebook:
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Note this particular meat from Richard Healey’s Facebook post:
[my emphasis]
“If you have a property where the lines were built before 2001, then Aurora owns everything up to the house. The only exceptions are where the lines have been brought up to standard and a letter has been sent to the property owner transferring ownership of the lines or a prior agreement is in place. That has almost never happened in Dunedin. If you think that you have been billed, and shouldn’t have been, write to Aurora. If you don’t get redress file a claim.
If you would like to read the appropriate legislation, look up the electricity act 1992 and search for the definition of “point of supply”.
What does that mean? It means that it’s probable that thousands of Dunedin residents have been charged for maintenance to lines and poles that they do not own.”
█ Electricity Act 1992
Reprint as at 18 October 2016
http://www.legislation.co.nz/act/public/1992/0122/latest/DLM281858.html
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Posted by Elizabeth Kerr
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What if? Dunedin... 
It seems Local Government (and their CCOs) around the country have a propensity to charge out…. parallels at Dunedin ?
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### Stuff.co.nz Last updated 10:36 p.m., Jan 15 2017
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Larceny by Trick.
Taxes will rise until the customers complain.
C. Northcote Parkinson.
Amazing how smart they were years ago and how stupid we have become.