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AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A revised bedbug ordinance under consideration by City Council in Maine's capital city would apply to all rental buildings and would hold tenants who don't cooperate responsible for the cost of treating the infestation.
The Kennebec Journal reports (http://bit.ly/28UELcS ) those changes and others were made to a proposed permanent version of an emergency measure adopted last month after a bedbug infestation at a pair of boarding houses in Augusta. City councilors are expected to discuss the proposal at their informational meeting Thursday.
The proposed changes were discussed when city officials with a group of landlords, property managers, tenant advocates, pest control workers and state health officials. Those changes include applying the rules to all rental buildings. The first version of the ordinance only applied to multi-unit buildings.
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