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    "title": "Portland, Maine's 2027 allowable increase, New Jersey's balcony-solar act typed as pending, and an Alabama squatter-removal boundary",
    "summary": "Portland, Maine announced its calendar-year 2027 Allowable Increase Percentage on September 1, 2026: 2.6%, being 70% of the 3.7% rise in the Greater Boston consumer price index from July 2025 to July 2026; the 2026 figure of 2.2% stays in force through December 31, 2026. New Jersey's Garden State Balcony Solar Act (P.L.2026, c.82, approved September 1, 2026, in force March 1, 2027) is typed as pending on the habitability record: from that date a landlord may not bar a self-metered tenant's portable solar device within the leased premises and is not liable for a habitability or essential-service condition caused solely by the device. Alabama's eviction record now states the boundary drawn by Ala. Code § 35-9B-9: a squatter is removed on a sworn affidavit outside chapters 9 and 9A, and a tenant who holds over is not a squatter. Louisiana's eviction record names the two 2026 acts that amended the legal-holidays statute (Acts 2026, Nos. 40 and 113, in force August 1, 2026) and confirms that neither changed the Saturday-and-Sunday rule the five-day notice count rests on. Seattle's deposit-interest record links the current Municipal Code node for chapter 7.24."
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