Good morning, My attorney has a town that is requesting two ordinances, 1) To enact an Ordinance stating any utility balances left by a tenant must be paid by the landlord in order to have additional services for any given property, and 2) To enact an Ordinance giving the town the authority to inspect rental properties prior to execution of any lease agreement to insure that the domicile is livable.  My question/s is if this is something that can be enacted by a town? Is this common practice? Or even something they can legally do?  Please advise at your convenience.   Thanks! Cathy Ramsey, Paralegal JAMES J. HODGENS, P.C. P.O. Box 686 301 W. Main St. Stroud, OK 74079 918/968-2537 NOTICE: CONFIDENTIAL AND PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATION: The information in this electronic mail, including any attachments, is sent by or on behalf of an attorney and is intended to be confidential and for the use of the intended recipient only. The information contained in this transmission and any attached documents or previous emails may be protected by the attorney-client privilege, work product doctrine, or otherwise legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that retention, use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message or any attachments hereto is strictly prohibited. If you received this electronic mail in error, please notify us immediately by reply and destroy the original transmission and its attachments without reading them or saving them to a disk. Thank you.