The Superintendence of Electricity has announced that consumers with illegal connections will have three months to go legit, once President Leonel Fernandez signs the changes to Law 125-01. After this, the government will be applying penalties for fraudulent connections. During this period, power distributors and the government will carry out a consumer awareness campaign.
Nevertheless, he commented, as reported in Hoy, that the new law does not seek to persecute the consumer, but rather to dissuade the consumer from stealing power.