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NY Pub Serv L § 3-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBS - Public Service Article 1 - The Department of Public Service 3-A - Transfer of Lands.

§ 3-a. Transfer  of lands. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,   any land, property, right, easement or fee under the jurisdiction of the   commission acquired in the name of the people of the state of  New  York   for  the  purpose  of  the construction, maintenance or development of a   grade crossing elimination project or  acquired  pursuant  to  any  laws   applicable  to  grade  crossing  eliminations which is determined by the   commissioner of transportation  to  be  of  use  or  benefit  for  state   transportation   purposes   is   transferred   to  the  commissioner  of   transportation. The commissioner of general services  is  authorized  to   convey  to  the  city of New York any of said parcels or interests which   the commissioner of transportation determines not to  be  necessary  for   state  transportation  purposes.  Such  conveyances  may be made on such   terms and  conditions  as  the  commissioner  of  general  services  may   determine.
NY Pub Serv L § 4-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBS - Public Service Article 1 - The Department of Public Service 4-B - Removals.

§ 4-b. Removals.      The  governor  may  remove  any  public  service   commissioner, now in office or hereafter  appointed,  for  inefficiency,   neglect  of  duty  or  misconduct  in  office,  giving him a copy of the   charges against him, and an  opportunity  of  being  publicly  heard  in   person  or  by  counsel in his own defense, upon not less than ten days'   notice. If such commissioner shall be removed the governor shall file in   the office of the department of state a complete  statement  of  charges   made  against such commissioner, and his findings thereon, together with   a complete record of the proceeding.
NY Pub Serv L § 5-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBS - Public Service Article 1 - The Department of Public Service 5-B - Corporations Subject to Chapter Although Not Transacting Business.

§ 5-b. Corporations   subject  to  chapter  although  not  transacting   business.   Corporations formed  to  acquire  property  or  to  transact   business  which  would be subject to the provisions of this chapter, and   corporations possessing franchises for any of the purposes  contemplated   by this chapter, shall be deemed to be subject to the provisions of this   chapter although no property may have been acquired, business transacted   or franchises exercised.
NY Pub Serv L § 5-E (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBS - Public Service Article 1 - The Department of Public Service 5-E - Jurisdiction of Commission Over Certain Corporations, Their Operations and Facilities.

§ 5-e. Jurisdiction  of  commission  over  certain corporations, their   operations and facilities.1. The commission shall have no jurisdiction, supervision,  powers  or   duties  with  respect to any corporation which is owned or controlled in   whole or in part by a gas corporation, an electric corporation or a  gas   and  electric  corporation subject to the jurisdiction of the commission   the primary function of which is the leasing, as lessor or lessee and/or   operating of a facility or facilities for the manufacture of electricity   or steam, as is permitted by and provided in article 18-A of the general   municipal law, provided that such facility or facilities are located  on   a  parcel of land consisting of more than two hundred acres and formerly   owned by the United States government and in any  county  of  the  state   having  a  population  of  two million inhabitants or more and where the   electric or steam service does not  cross  streets  which  are  publicly   maintained and open to the use of the public at large.2.  The  provisions  of  this section shall apply only to corporations   which have entered into an initial lease executed prior to  July  first,   nineteen hundred eighty.
NY Pub Serv L § 7 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBS - Public Service Article 1 - The Department of Public Service 7 - Organization and Records; Minutes as Evidence; Destruction of Certain Records.

§ 7. Organization  and  records;  minutes  as evidence; destruction of   certain records. 1. The commission shall have a secretary and  assistant   secretaries to be appointed by the chairman. It shall be the duty of the   secretary  to  keep  a  full  and  true  record of all proceedings and a   transcript of the public sessions of the commission.  The record of  the   proceedings  of  the  commission  shall  be  prima facie evidence of the   proceedings of the commission. The transcript of public  sessions  shall   be  made  available  in  the  Albany  and New York city offices that the   commission maintains. The chairman shall have charge of the organization   of its office, shall assign its employees to the  several  divisions  or   bureaus  and  shall  superintend  the  performance  of their duties. The   secretary and assistant secretary, each commissioner  and  each  hearing   officer  or person designated to conduct an investigation may administer   oaths in all parts of the state, so far as the exercise of such power is   properly incidental to the performance  of  his  duty  or  that  of  the   commission.2.  Such records and general correspondence as are no longer necessary   for the purposes of the commission may be destroyed upon  the  order  of   the  commission;  but  no such record, report or correspondence shall be   destroyed until it shall have been on file for at least five years.3. Any opinion  issued  by  the  commission  in  a  formal  commission   proceeding shall include a record of the vote taken indicating the names   of   the  commissioners  who  voted  in  favor  and  the  names  of  the   commissioners who voted against the opinion. Any  statement  of  dissent   shall be attached to the majority's opinion.
NY Pub Serv L § 8 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBS - Public Service Article 1 - The Department of Public Service 8 - Additional Officers and Employees.

§ 8. Additional officers and employees.  The chairman shall have power   to  employ such officers, clerks, inspectors, experts and employees, and   to make such contracts for  special  services  as  he  may  deem  to  be   necessary  to  carry  out  this  chapter,  or  to perform the duties and   exercise the powers conferred by law upon the commission. The  chairman,   by  certificate  filed  in the office of the commission may from time to   time, specially authorize any officer or employee of the  commission  to   conduct any investigation or hearing, which the commission is authorized   to  conduct, to take testimony in respect of the subject or matter under   investigation, and report the testimony to the commission,  and  in  the   conduct  of such investigation or hearing such officer or employee shall   have all the powers of a commissioner.
NY Pub Serv L § 9 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBS - Public Service Article 1 - The Department of Public Service 9 - Oath of Office; Eligibility of Commissioners and Officers.

§ 9. Oath  of office; eligibility of commissioners and officers.  Each   commissioner and each person appointed to office by the chairman  shall,   before  entering  upon  the duties of his office, take and subscribe the   constitutional oath of office. The oaths of office other than those of a   commissioner shall be filed in the office of the commission.  No  person   shall   be  eligible  for  appointment  or  shall  hold  the  office  of   commissioner or be appointed to, or hold, any office or  position  under   the  commission,  who  holds  any  official  relation  to  any person or   corporation subject to the supervision of the commission,  or  who  owns   stocks or bonds of any such corporation.
NY Pub Serv L § 10 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBS - Public Service Article 1 - The Department of Public Service 10 - Offices of Commission; Meeting; Stationery, Et Cetera.

§ 10. Offices  of  commission;  meeting;  stationery,  et  cetera. The   principal office of the public service commission shall be in  the  city   of  Albany, in rooms designated by the commissioner of general services.   The public service commission shall also maintain a branch office in the   city of New York. The commission shall hold  stated  meetings  at  least   once  a  month  during  the  year  at  its  office. The offices shall be   supplied with all necessary  books,  maps,  charts,  stationery,  office   furniture,  telephone  and telegraph connections and all other necessary   appliances, to be  paid  for  in  the  same  manner  as  other  expenses   authorized by this chapter.
NY Pub Serv L § 11 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBS - Public Service Article 1 - The Department of Public Service 11 - Quorum; Powers of a Commissioner.

§ 11. Quorum;  powers  of  a  commissioner.    A  majority of the duly   appointed commissioners shall constitute a quorum and not  less  than  a   majority  of  such  commissioners  concurring may transact any business,   perform any duty or exercise any power of the commission. The commission   may hold meetings of the commission at any  time  or  place  within  the   state.  Any  investigation,  inquiry or hearing which the commission has   power to undertake or to hold may be undertaken or held by or before any   commissioner or before any specially authorized officer or  employee  of   the  commission,  provided  that at least one commissioner shall hold at   least  one  public  hearing  without  delegation  of  authority  to  any   specially  authorized hearing officer or employee when such hearings are   mandated  by  applications  for  rate  increases.  All   investigations,   inquiries,  hearings  and  decisions  of  a  commissioner  or  specially   authorized officer or  employee  shall  be  and  be  deemed  to  be  the   investigations,  inquiries, hearings and decisions of the commission and   every order made by a commissioner, when approved and confirmed  by  the   commission and ordered filed in its office, shall be and be deemed to be   the order of the commission.
NY Pub Serv L § 12 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBS - Public Service Article 1 - The Department of Public Service 12 - Counsel to the Commission; Duties.

§ 12. Counsel  to  the  commission;  duties.  It  shall be the duty of   counsel to the commission, subject to the direction of the chairman,  to   represent  and  appear for the people of the state and the commission in   all actions and proceedings involving any question under  this  chapter,   or  within the jurisdiction of the commission, and, if directed to do so   to intervene, if possible, in any action or proceeding in which any such   question  is  involved;  to  commence  and  prosecute  all  actions  and   proceedings  directed  or  authorized,  and  to  expedite  in  every way   possible final determination of all such actions  and  proceedings;  and   generally to perform all duties and services delegated to or required of   him.
NY Pub Serv L § 13 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBS - Public Service Article 1 - The Department of Public Service 13 - Expenses.

§ 13. Expenses.     All  officers,  clerks,  inspectors,  experts  and   employees of the commission shall receive the compensation fixed by  the   chairman  of  the commission within the amounts appropriated therefor by   the legislature. The commissioners and counsel  to  the  commission  may   receive,  in  lieu  of  expenses,  twenty-five  dollars  per  day, and a   proportionate amount thereof for each fraction of a day,  while  engaged   in  the performance of official duties at a place other than the city to   which they are regularly assigned,  and  shall  be  reimbursed  for  the   actual  and  necessary  cost  of  transportation  incurred by them; this   provision, however, shall  not  be  applicable  to  the  chairman  or  a   commissioner receiving a definite sum in lieu of traveling expenses. The   officers,   clerks,   inspectors,  experts  and  employees,  shall  have   reimbursed to them all actual and necessary traveling and other expenses   and disbursements incurred or made by them in  the  discharge  of  their   official duties.
NY Pub Serv L § 14 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBS - Public Service Article 1 - The Department of Public Service 14 - Payment of Salaries and Expenses.

§ 14. Payment  of salaries and expenses.  All salaries and expenses of   the public service commission shall  be  paid  monthly  from  the  state   treasury  upon the audit and warrant of the comptroller out of the funds   provided therefor.
NY Pub Serv L § 15 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBS - Public Service Article 1 - The Department of Public Service 15 - Certain Acts Prohibited.

§ 15. Certain  acts  prohibited.  Every commissioner, and every person   employed or appointed to office in the department  is  hereby  forbidden   and  prohibited  to  solicit, suggest, request or recommend, directly or   indirectly, to any corporation or person subject to the  supervision  of   the  commission, or to any officer, attorney, agent or employee thereof,   the appointment  of  any  person  to  any  office,  place,  position  or   employment.    And every such corporation and person, and every officer,   attorney, agent and employee thereof, is hereby forbidden and prohibited   to offer to any commissioner or to any person employed by the department   any office, place, appointment or position, or to offer or give  to  any   commissioner,  or  to any officer employed or appointed to office in the   department any free pass or transportation or any reduction in  fare  to   which  the  public  generally  are  not  entitled  or  free carriage for   property  or  any  present,  gift  or  gratuity  of  any  kind.  If  any   commissioner  or  any  person  employed  or  appointed  to office in the   department shall violate any provision  of  this  section  he  shall  be   removed  from  office.  Every  commissioner and every person employed or   appointed to office in the department shall be and be  deemed  to  be  a   public officer. Any employee or agent of the department who divulges any   confidential  information  which  may  come  to his knowledge during the   course of any inspection  or  examination  of  the  property,  accounts,   records  or memoranda of any person, corporation or municipality subject   to the jurisdiction of the commission,  except  insofar  as  he  may  be   directed  by  the  commission,  or by a court or judge, or authorized by   law, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
NY Pub Serv L § 16 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBS - Public Service Article 1 - The Department of Public Service 16 - Reports of Commission.

§ 16. Reports of commission.  1. All proceedings of the commission and   all documents and records in its possession shall be public records.2.  The commission shall conduct a hearing and take testimony relative   to any pending legislation with respect to any  person,  corporation  or   matter  within the jurisdiction of the commission, if requested to do so   by the legislature  or  by  either  branch  thereof  or  by  a  standing   committee  of  either  branch  thereof or by the governor or by any such   person  or  corporation,  and  shall  report  its  conclusions  to   the   legislature.  The  commission  may  also recommend the enactment of such   legislation with respect to any matter within  its  jurisdiction  as  it   deems wise or necessary in the public interest.
NY Pub Serv L § 17 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBS - Public Service Article 1 - The Department of Public Service 17 - Certified Copies of Papers Filed to Be Evidence.

§ 17. Certified  copies of papers filed to be evidence.  Copies of all   official documents and orders filed or deposited according to law in the   office of  the  commission,  certified  by  a  commissioner  or  by  the   secretary  or assistant secretary of the commission to be true copies of   the originals, under  the  official  seal  of  the  division,  shall  be   evidence in like manner as the originals.
NY Pub Serv L § 18-C (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBS - Public Service Article 1 - The Department of Public Service 18-C - Refunds by the Commission.

§ 18-c. Refunds  by  the  commission.  Whenever  it  appears  that any   person, firm, corporation or municipal  corporation,  has  paid  to  the   commission  fees  or  other  charges  in  excess  of  the amount legally   chargeable  against  such  person,  firm,   corporation   or   municipal   corporation,  the  commission shall have power, within three years after   the date of such payment, to refund to such person, firm, corporation or   municipal corporation the amount of such excess. Such refund may be made   upon audit by the comptroller, from any  moneys  in  the  hands  of  the   commission,  not  as  yet  turned over to the department of taxation and   finance.
NY Pub Serv L § 19 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBS - Public Service Article 1 - The Department of Public Service 19 - Attendance of Witnesses and Their Fees.

§ 19. Attendance of witnesses and their fees.  1. The commission shall   have  power  to  issue subpoenas and subpoena duces tecum. All subpoenas   shall be signed and issued by a commissioner, by an officer or  employee   of  the  commission  specially authorized to conduct an investigation or   hearing or by the secretary or assistant secretary  of  the  commission.   The  fees  of  witnesses  required to attend before the commission, or a   commissioner, or an officer or employee specially authorized to  conduct   an  investigation  or  hearing,  shall  be  the same as in the case of a   subpoena issued out of a court of record, and paid when the  witness  is   excused  from further attendance. Except as is herein provided subpoenas   shall be regulated by the civil practice law  and  rules.    Whenever  a   subpoena  is  issued  at  the  instance of a complainant, respondent, or   other party to any proceeding before the commission, the cost of service   thereof and the fee of the witness shall be borne by the party at  whose   instance the witness is summoned.2.  If  a  person  subpoenaed  to  attend  before  the commission or a   commissioner, or an officer or employee specially authorized to  conduct   an investigation or hearing, fails to obey the command of such subpoena,   without  reasonable  cause,  or  if  a  person  in attendance before the   commission  or  commissioner,  or  an  officer  or  employee   specially   authorized  to  conduct  an  investigation  or  hearing,  shall, without   reasonable cause, refuse to be sworn or to be examined or  to  answer  a   question  or  to  produce a book or papers, when ordered so to do by the   commission, or a commissioner,  or  an  officer  or  employee  specially   authorized  to  conduct an investigation or hearing, or to subscribe and   swear to his deposition after it has been correctly reduced to  writing,   he  shall  be  guilty of a misdemeanor and may be prosecuted therefor in   any court of competent criminal jurisdiction.
NY Pub Serv L § 20 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBS - Public Service Article 1 - The Department of Public Service 20 - Practice Before the Commission; Immunity of Witnesses.

§ 20. Practice  before  the commission; immunity of witnesses.  1. All   hearings before the commission or  a  commissioner,  or  an  officer  or   employee  specially  authorized  to conduct an investigation or hearing,   shall be  governed  by  rules  to  be  adopted  and  prescribed  by  the   commission.    And  in  all  investigations,  inquiries  or hearings the   commission or a  commissioner,  or  an  officer  or  employee  specially   authorized to conduct an investigation or hearing, shall not be bound by   the technical rules of evidence.2.  In  any investigation or inquiry by or upon any hearing before the   commission or any commissioner, or  an  officer  or  employee  specially   authorized  to  conduct an investigation or hearing, the commission, any   commissioner or the officer conducting the investigation or hearing  may   confer  immunity  in  accordance with the provisions of section 50.20 of   the criminal procedure law.
NY Pub Serv L § 21 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBS - Public Service Article 1 - The Department of Public Service 21 - Court Proceedings; Preferences.

§ 21. Court  proceedings;  preferences.    All actions and proceedings   under this  chapter,  and  all  actions  and  proceedings  commenced  or   prosecuted  by  order of the commission, and all actions and proceedings   to which the commission or the people of the state of New  York  may  be   parties,  and  in which any question arises under this chapter, or under   the railroad law, or under or concerning any  order  or  action  of  the   commission,  shall  be  preferred  over  all  other  civil causes except   election causes in all courts of the state of  New  York  and  shall  be   heard  and  determined in preference to all other civil business pending   therein excepting election  causes,  irrespective  of  position  on  the   calendar.  The  same preference shall be granted upon application in any   action  or  proceeding  in  which  the  commission  may  be  allowed  to   intervene.
NY Pub Serv L § 22 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBS - Public Service Article 1 - The Department of Public Service 22 - Rehearing Before Commission.

§ 22. Rehearing  before  commission.   After an order has been made by   the commission any corporation or person interested therein  shall  have   the  right  to apply for a rehearing in respect to any matter determined   therein, but any such application must be made within thirty days  after   the  service  of  such order, unless the commission for good cause shown   shall otherwise direct; and the commission shall grant and hold  such  a   rehearing  if  in  its  judgment  sufficient reason therefore be made to   appear.  The  decision  of  the  commission  granting  or  refusing  the   application  for  a rehearing shall be made within thirty days after the   making of such application. If a rehearing shall be  granted,  the  same   shall  be determined by the commission within thirty days after the same   shall be finally submitted.  An application for such a  rehearing  shall   not  excuse any corporation or person from complying with or obeying any   order or any requirement of any order of the commission, or  operate  in   any  manner  to  stay  or postpone the enforcement thereof except as the   commission  may  by  order  direct.  If,  after  such  rehearing  and  a   consideration  of the facts, including those arising since the making of   the order, the commission shall be of opinion that the original order or   any part thereof is in any respect unjust or unwarranted, or  should  be   changed,  the  commission may abrogate or change the same. An order made   after any such rehearing abrogating or changing the original order shall   have the same force and effect as an original order but shall not affect   any right or the enforcement of any right arising from or by  virtue  of   the original order.