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2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 1 - The Department of Public Service › 26 - Enforcement Proceedings.

§ 26. Enforcement proceedings. Whenever the commission shall be of the
  opinion  that  a  public  utility company, corporation or person and the
  officers, agents or employees thereof is failing or omitting or is about
  to fail or omit to do anything required of it by any provision  of  this
  chapter  or  by order or regulation, adopted under the authority of this
  chapter or is doing anything or about  to  do  anything,  or  permitting
  anything  or  about  to  permit  anything  to  be done contrary to or in
  violation of any provision of this chapter or  an  order  or  regulation
  adopted  pursuant  to this chapter, the commission may direct counsel to
  the commission to commence  an  action  or  special  proceeding  in  the
  supreme  court  in  the name of the commission for the purpose of having
  such violations or threatened violations stopped and prevented.  Counsel
  to the commission shall thereupon begin an action or special  proceeding
  alleging the violation complained of and praying for appropriate relief.
  In  case  of  default  in  answer  or  after  answer,  the  court  shall
  immediately inquire into the facts and circumstances in such  manner  as
  the  court shall direct. Such other corporations or persons, as it shall
  seem to the court necessary or proper to join as  parties  in  order  to
  make  its  judgment  effective may be joined as parties to the action or
  proceeding. The final judgment in any such action or special  proceeding
  shall  either  dismiss the action or special proceeding, direct judgment
  as prayed for in the complaint or petition, or be in such other form  as
  the court may determine is just and reasonable.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 1 - The Department of Public Service › 27 - Public Availability of Certain Competitive Requests for Proposals.

§   27.  Public  availability  of  certain  competitive  requests  for
  proposals.   Any competitive requests  for  proposals  relating  to  the
  generation  of electricity, initiated as part of a proceeding before the
  commission and issued  by  any  electric  corporation  having  a  retail
  franchise service territory in the state, shall be made available to the
  department  and  filed  in  the  proceeding  to  which such requests for
  proposals pertain according to  the  department's  regulations  for  the
  filing of documents with the department's secretary.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 2 - Residential Gas, Electric and Steam Utility Service › 30 - Residential Gas, Electric and Steam Service Policy.

§ 30. Residential gas, electric and steam service policy. This article
  shall  apply to the provision of all or any part of the gas, electric or
  steam service provided to any residential customer by any gas,  electric
  or  steam  and  municipalities corporation or municipality. It is hereby
  declared to be the policy of this state that the continued provision  of
  all  or  any  part  of  such  gas,  electric  and  steam  service to all
  residential customers without  unreasonable  qualifications  or  lengthy
  delays  is  necessary  for  the  preservation  of the health and general
  welfare and is in the public interest.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 2 - Residential Gas, Electric and Steam Utility Service › 31-A - Use of Preferred Name and Pronouns.

§  31-a.  Use  of  preferred  name  and  pronouns.  1.  Every  utility
corporation or municipality shall  provide  applicants  for  residential
service  and  residential  customers with a convenient option to request
that the utility corporation or municipality use  their  preferred  name
and/or  preferred pronouns in all written or oral communications between
the utility corporation or municipality and the applicant  or  customer,
as  well  as  all  statements  or documentation relating to a customer's
residential service, regardless of whether such applicant or  customer's
preferred name differs from their current legal name.
2.  If  an  applicant  or customer's preferred name differs from their
current legal name, a utility corporation or  municipality  may  require
such applicant or customer to provide reasonable proof of identity using
their legal name, provided that such information shall be used solely to
verify  the  applicant  or  customer's  identity  or  for other purposes
required by law.
3. No utility corporation or municipality shall:
(a) willfully and repeatedly fail to use an  applicant  or  customer's
preferred name and/or preferred pronouns after being clearly informed of
the preferred name and/or preferred pronouns pursuant to subdivision one
of this section; or
(b)   require  an  applicant  or  customer  to  specify  their  sexual
orientation or gender identity or  expression  in  order  to  use  their
preferred name and/or preferred pronouns.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 2 - Residential Gas, Electric and Steam Utility Service › 34 - Discontinuance of Utility Service in Two Family Dwellings.

§ 34. Discontinuance  of  utility  service in two family dwellings. 1.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no  utility  corporation  or
municipality  shall  terminate  gas  or electric service to a two family
dwelling that it knows contains  units  where  service  is  not  metered
separately  unless such utility or municipality shall have given fifteen
days' written notice of its intention to terminate service as follows:
(a) a copy of such notice shall be mailed to the owner of the premises
affected, or in lieu thereof, to the person, firm or corporation to whom
or which the last preceding service bill has been rendered, and
(b) a copy of such notice shall be mailed or  otherwise  delivered  to
each occupied unit, and
(c)  where  possible,  a  copy  of  such  notice  shall be posted in a
conspicuous place at or within the dwelling.
2. The commission shall affirmatively approve or provide for the  form
and content of notices required by subdivision one of this section. Such
notices  shall  state  the  intended date of termination of service, the
amount due for such service, and the procedure by which any occupant may
make payment or take action to avoid termination of service.
3. The commission shall provide by regulation:
(a) that any occupant may  prevent  termination  of  service  if  such
occupant applies for and is eligible for such service;
(b)  that  any  occupant  may prevent termination of service by making
payments in accordance with established procedures. In  no  event  shall
such  payments  include  bills  more  than  two  months  in arrears. Any
occupant who chooses to pay current charges shall not be liable for  any
future  bills  which may be rendered for utility service supplied to the
dwelling. The utility corporation  or  municipality  shall  continue  to
render  all bills to the customer with a copy to be sent to any occupant
upon request; and
(c) staff to advise occupants of the provisions of  this  section  and
the commission's regulations.
4.  Whenever  the  obligations  owed  to  the  utility  corporation or
municipality  for  service  to  a  dwelling  have  been  satisfied,  the
corporation  or  municipality  shall notify an occupant of each dwelling
which was given notice of intent to terminate service.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 2 - Residential Gas, Electric and Steam Utility Service › 35 - Reconnection of Service.

§ 35. Reconnection  of service.  1. The commission shall by regulation
  establish  reasonable  conditions  under  which  an  electric   or   gas
  corporation or municipality shall be required to take all actions within
  such  corporation  or  municipality's  control  and,  where  applicable,
  consistent with the provision of the agreement for commodity service, if
  any, between the corporation and the customer, provided such  provisions
  are  consistent  with  this  article to reconnect service to residential
  customers. Such  conditions  shall  include,  but  not  be  limited  to,
  requirements  for  reconnection  of  service  within  twenty-four hours,
  unless prevented by circumstances beyond the utility's or municipality's
  control, (a) upon receipt by a corporation or municipality of  the  full
  amount  of  arrears which were the basis for termination of service, (b)
  upon the signing of a deferred payment plan together with a down payment
  based on criteria to be established by the commission, provided that  no
  such  down  payment  shall  exceed  one-half of the amount which was the
  basis of termination, or the amount of three months  billing,  whichever
  is  less, (c) upon the direction of the commission, (d) upon the receipt
  of a commitment of a direct payment or a written  guarantee  of  payment
  from  the  social  services  official of the social services district in
  which the customer resides or (e) where the utility or municipality  has
  notice that a serious impairment to health or safety is likely to result
  if service is not reconnected. With respect to reconnection on the basis
  of  serious  impairment  of health or safety doubts shall be resolved in
  favor of reconnection of service.  The  chairman  shall  designate  such
  officers  and  employees  as  he  deems necessary to act on requests for
  service reconnections.
2. Where any  utility  corporation  or  municipality  is  required  to
  reconnect  service  within twenty-four hours and fails or neglects to do
  so without good cause as determined by the commission, it shall  forfeit
  and pay to the customer the sum of not less than twenty-five dollars nor
  more  than  fifty dollars per day for each day thereafter, as determined
  by the commission, that such service is not supplied.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 2 - Residential Gas, Electric and Steam Utility Service › 37 - Deferred Payment Agreements.

§ 37. Deferred  payment  agreements.    1.  No  utility corporation or
  municipality shall terminate or refuse to take all actions  within  such
  corporation  or municipality's control and, where applicable, consistent
  with the provisions of the agreement  for  commodity  service,  if  any,
  between  the  corporation and the customer, provided such provisions are
  consistent with this  article,  to  restore  service  to  a  residential
  customer,   because   of   arrears   owed  the  utility  corporation  or
  municipality, unless the utility or municipality offers such customer  a
  deferred  payment  agreement for such arrears; provided, however, that a
  deferred payment agreement under this article shall not be available  to
  any  customer  who the commission determines has the resources available
  to pay his bill, and provided further, however, that any such  agreement
  may  provide  for  the  customer  to  make a downpayment of the arrears,
  provided that no such downpayment shall exceed one-half of the amount of
  arrears or three months average billing, whichever is less. In addition,
  the commission shall provide by regulation that (a) all deferred payment
  agreements authorized by this article be fair and equitable, considering
  the  customer's  financial  circumstances;  (b)  that  such   agreements
  obligate customers to make timely payment of current charges for service
  together  with payment of arrears during the pendency of the agreements;
  that such agreements may be renegotiated and amended where the  customer
  can  demonstrate  that there have been significant changes in his or her
  financial circumstances which have arisen due to conditions  beyond  the
  customer's control, and that, if the customer receives a utility service
  by  the  receipt  of  portions  of such service from each of two or more
  utility corporations and is billed for such  service  through  a  single
  bill,  the  payments  pursuant  to  the  deferred  payment agreement for
  current charges shall be allocated  to  each  such  utility  corporation
  based  on the current charges owing to each and the payments for arrears
  shall be allocated equitably on a pro-rata basis  between  such  utility
  corporations based on the amount of arrears owing to each.
2.  Upon  offering  any  deferred  payment agreement, and prior to the
  signing thereof, a utility corporation  or  municipality  shall  give  a
  customer a copy of the agreement, in a form established or affirmatively
  approved by the commission, which shall contain a conspicuous, bold type
  notice that the customer may request the assistance of the commission in
  reaching  an  agreement. Any such agreement shall be signed in duplicate
  by the utility or municipality and the customer and each shall receive a
  signed copy thereof.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 2 - Residential Gas, Electric and Steam Utility Service › 38 - Budget or Levelized Payment Plans; Quarterly Billing.

§ 38. Budget  or  levelized payment plans; quarterly billing. 1. Every
  utility corporation or municipality shall offer residential customers  a
  budget billing plan or levelized payment plan for payment of charges for
  gas  or  electric  service.  Any  such  plans  shall  also be offered to
  customers  who  are  condominium  associations  or  cooperative  housing
  corporations regardless of whether such associations or corporations are
  classified as residential or commercial customers.
2.  Every  utility corporation or municipality shall offer residential
  customers who are sixty-two years of age or older, as an alternative  to
  monthly  billing, a plan for payment on a quarterly basis of charges for
  gas and electric service rendered by such corporation  or  municipality,
  provided  that  such  customer's average annual billing is not more than
  one hundred fifty dollars.
3. The commission may establish such terms and  conditions  for  plans
  required under this section as it deems necessary or proper.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 2 - Residential Gas, Electric and Steam Utility Service › 40 - Voluntary Third-Party Notification.

* § 40. Voluntary  third-party notice prior to termination of service.
  1.  Every utility corporation or municipality shall permit a residential
  customer to designate a third-party to receive  copies  of  all  notices
  relating  to termination of service or collection of amounts due sent to
  such residential customer,  provided  that  the  designated  third-party
  indicates in writing a willingness to receive such notices.
2.  Every utility corporation or municipality shall permit a landlord,
  upon written request of both the landlord and  tenant,  to  designate  a
  third-party to be notified of all requests for discontinuance of service
  to units owned by such landlord.
* NB Effective until June 19, 2024
* § 40. Voluntary   third-party   notification.   1.   Every   utility
  corporation or municipality  shall  permit  a  residential  customer  to
  designate  a  third  party  to receive notice of the total amount due or
  past due on all bills, the amounts of any payments paid by or on  behalf
  of  such  residential  customer,  and  copies of all notices relating to
  termination of service and notices relating to collection of amounts due
  sent to such residential customer, provided that  the  designated  third
  party  indicates  in  writing a willingness to receive such notices, and
  provided further, where a  residential  customer  opts  for  third-party
  notifications,  such residential customer may opt to continue to receive
  such notices.
2. Every utility corporation or municipality shall permit a  landlord,
  upon  written  request  of  both the landlord and tenant, to designate a
  third party to be notified of all requests for discontinuance of service
  to units occupied by such tenant, provided that the designed third party
  indicates in writing a willingness to receive such notices, and provided
  further, where the tenant and landlord  customers  opt  for  third-party
  notifications, such tenant and landlord customers may opt to continue to
  receive such notices.
* NB Effective June 19, 2024
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 2 - Residential Gas, Electric and Steam Utility Service › 42-A - Payment of Wages to Workers; Certain Cases.

§ 42-a. Payment of wages to workers; certain cases. 1. The legislature
  hereby finds that the protection of critical infrastructure is furthered
  by  the  enhanced  training,  experience and expertise of workers in all
  positions at such facilities. Given that the state of New York,  due  to
  its  representation  as a beacon of liberty, diversity and equality, and
  its history of being the target of terrorist attacks, will always  be  a
  target  for  those  who wish to do this country and this state harm, New
  York has a fundamental obligation to harden its  infrastructure  against
  any  such  threats or activity. In hardening the infrastructure there is
  no greater asset than the human capital that serve at the front lines of
  the  effort  to  thwart  terrorist  attacks.  The  electric  and   steam
  generating  facilities  in the state, when active, provide a target that
  requires the hardening not only of the physical infrastructure  but  the
  human  infrastructure  as  well.  Turnover  in  such  positions, for the
  service workers who provide cleaning, security and maintenance  services
  at  such  active  generating facilities will decrease if the workers are
  paid increased wages. The reduction of turnover will allow for the  more
  developed  and  trained  workforce to continue to provide the measure of
  safety and security the  state  requires.  Given  that  important  state
  interest,  it  is  therefore found and declared that the workers at such
  facilities shall be trained to ensure their ability to meet the security
  needs of the facilities that they work upon. It  is  further  found  and
  declared  that  the  reduction  of  turnover  may be accomplished by the
  payment of rates of pay in line with those prevailing in such  trade  or
  occupation, as otherwise defined.
2.  The  wages  paid,  and  benefits  provided,  to  building  service
  employees who are employed at a work location that is  an  active  major
  electric   or  steam  generating  facility,  or  at  a  transmission  or
  distribution facility considered critical infrastructure  as  determined
  by   the  division  of  homeland  security  and  emergency  services  in
  consultation with the department, shall be subject to  article  nine  of
  the  labor  law. For purposes of this section "major electric generating
  facility"  means  an  electric  generating  facility  with  a  nameplate
  generating capacity of twenty-five thousand kilowatts or more, including
  interconnection  electric  transmission  lines and fuel gas transmission
  lines, and "major steam generating facility" means  a  steam  generating
  facility with a generating capacity to be determined by the department.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 2 - Residential Gas, Electric and Steam Utility Service › 43 - Complaint Handling Procedures.

§ 43. Complaint  handling procedures. 1. The commission shall maintain
  regulations for the handling of residential customer  complaints,  which
  at  a  minimum  shall  require  that  each  utility or municipality: (a)
  maintain procedures for prompt investigation of any complaint on a  bill
  for  gas  or  electric  service  rendered  or a deposit required and for
  prompt reporting to the complainant of the result of such investigation.
  If such report is made orally, the utility corporation  or  municipality
  shall  offer  the  complainant upon a written request the opportunity to
  receive  the  report  in  writing;  (b)  inform  any  complainant  whose
  complaint   is   resolved   in  favor  of  the  utility  corporation  or
  municipality,  in  whole  or  in  part,  of  the  availability  of   the
  commission's complaint handling procedures; (c) refrain from terminating
  service  for  nonpayment  so  long  as  a  complaint is pending before a
  utility, municipality or the commission and for fifteen days thereafter,
  or for such period as the commission for  good  cause  shall  establish;
  provided  however,  that  as a condition of continued service during the
  pendency of any such  dispute,  a  customer  shall  pay  the  undisputed
  portions  of  any bill for service including bills for current usage, or
  such amounts as the commission determines reasonably reflect the cost of
  usage to such customer; and  (d)  refrain  from  treating  the  disputed
  portion  of any bill as late during the pendency of any complaint before
  the utility or municipality.
2. The commission shall maintain regulations  for  complaint  handling
  procedures  including  complaints  with  respect to the negotiation of a
  deferred payment agreement  which  shall  include,  at  a  minimum:  (a)
  provision  for  investigation  and informal review and for appeal to the
  commission in its discretion; (b)  that  the  burden  of  proof  in  all
  proceedings  shall be on the utility corporation or municipality, except
  as otherwise  provided  by  the  commission  for  good  cause;  and  (c)
  provision  for  parties  to  receive  a  written  determination  of  any
  complaint,  upon  request,  in   plain   and   simple   English,   which
  determination  shall  set  forth  the  relevant  facts  established, the
  reasons for the determination, what  actions  must  be  taken  and  what
  further procedures are available to a complainant.
3.  The  commission  shall  use  its  best  efforts  to  complete  its
  investigation and review and to issue, within  ninety  days,  its  final
  written determination of any appeal to it pursuant to this section.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 2 - Residential Gas, Electric and Steam Utility Service › 46 - Emergency Disconnections to Residences.

§ 46. Emergency  disconnections  to  residences.  Notwithstanding  any
  other section of this article, a utility  corporation  in  ownership  or
  control  of  the  meters,  pipes,  fittings,  wires  and other apparatus
  associated with the  establishment  of  service  to  a  residence  or  a
  municipality may disconnect service to a residence when an emergency may
  threaten  the  health or safety of a person, the surrounding area or the
  utility's or municipality's distribution system. The utility corporation
  or municipality shall act promptly to assure restoration of  service  as
  soon  as  feasible. Service shall be restored to any residence before it
  may be terminated for any other reason.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 2 - Residential Gas, Electric and Steam Utility Service › 47 - Inspection and Examination of Apparatus.

§ 47. Inspection  and  examination  of apparatus. 1. A duly authorized
agent of a utility corporation or municipality may enter  any  dwelling,
building  or  other  location  supplied  with  gas or electricity by the
utility corporation or municipality, for the purpose of  inspecting  and
examining  the  meters,  pipes,  fittings, wires and other apparatus for
regulating, supplying and/or ascertaining the quantity  supplied,  under
the following terms and conditions:
(a)  the  agent  exhibits  a  photo-identification badge and a written
authority signed by the president or  vice-president  and  secretary  or
assistant  secretary  of  the corporation, or by the mayor or clerk of a
municipal corporation or by the chairman and secretary  of  a  municipal
board in control of a municipal utility, and
(b)  any  such  inspection  and  examination  shall  be conducted on a
non-holiday work day between eight a.m.  and  six  p.m.  or  such  other
reasonable  time requested by the customer, except when an emergency may
threaten the health or safety of a person, the surrounding area  or  the
utility's  or  municipality's  distribution  system,  or except when the
commission by regulation establishes a different time for the inspection
and examination where there is evidence of meter tampering or  theft  of
services.
2.  Except  when  an  emergency may threaten the health or safety of a
person,  the  surrounding  area  or  the  utility's  or   municipality's
distribution  system  or  where authorized by court order, an agent of a
utility or  municipality,  otherwise  duly  authorized  to  inspect  and
examine  apparatus may not enter locked premises without permission of a
person lawfully in control of the premises, nor use any manner of  force
to carry out such inspection and examination.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 2 - Residential Gas, Electric and Steam Utility Service › 48 - Emergency Hotline.

§ 48. Emergency hotline. 1. The commission shall establish a toll free
  number,  to be attended from nine o'clock a.m. to nine o'clock p.m. each
  business day,  which  a  residential  customer  may  use  to  contact  a
  commission  designee  authorized to order the reconnection, continuation
  or  initiation  of  residential  gas  or  electric  service  whenever  a
  reasonable  question  regarding  the  circumstances  of a termination or
  refusal of service exists or whenever the health and safety of a  person
  is involved.
2.  Each  utility  corporation  or  municipality  shall  designate  an
  employee who can be contacted by the commission's designee  and  who  is
  authorized to direct an ordered reconnection, continuation or initiation
  of service.
3.  The  commission  may  by regulation alter the time requirement for
  operation of the emergency hotline as set forth in this section  if  the
  commission   determines   that  such  alteration  continues  to  provide
  substantial emergency access to the commission by residential customers.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 2 - Residential Gas, Electric and Steam Utility Service › 48-A - Utility Services; Domestic Violence Victims.

§  48-a. Utility services; domestic violence victims. 1. Every utility
  corporation shall allow a person who is under  a  shared  contract  with
  such  utility  corporation  to  opt-out  of  such  contract without fee,
  penalty or charge when such person is a victim of domestic violence  and
  provides  an  attestation  in  writing  that they no longer wish to be a
  party to such contract due to their  status  as  a  victim  of  domestic
  violence.  Such  utility  corporation  may  not  require  such person to
  disclose confidential information or details relating to  such  person's
  status  as  a  victim of domestic violence, as a condition of permitting
  such  person  to  opt-out  of  such  contract.  Further,  such   utility
  corporation  may  not make release from such contract contingent on: (a)
  maintaining contractual or billing responsibility of a separated account
  with the provider; (b) approval of separation  by  the  primary  account
  holder,  if  the  primary  account  holder is not the person making such
  request; or (c) a prohibition or  limitation  on  the  separation  as  a
  result of arrears accrued by the account. Such utility corporation shall
  release  such  person  from such contract no later than seven days after
  receiving such opt-out request. Such utility corporation  shall  dispose
  of  information submitted by such person no later than thirty days after
  receiving such information in a manner as to maintain confidentiality of
  such information.
2. Every utility corporation shall make information about the  options
  and  process  described  in  subdivision  one  of  this  section readily
  available to customers on the website and any mobile application of such
  utility corporation,  and  in  other  forms  of  public-facing  customer
  communication.
3.  A  covered provider and any officer, director, employee, vendor or
  agent thereof shall not be subject to liability for any  claims  arising
  from  an  action  taken or omission made with respect to compliance with
  this section.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 2 - Residential Gas, Electric and Steam Utility Service › 49 - Residential Steam Service.

§ 49. Residential  steam  service.  The rights and responsibilities of
  customers receiving residential steam service  from  steam  corporations
  shall be substantially comparable to those of gas and electric customers
  under  this  article. The commission shall take such actions as it deems
  necessary and proper to achieve this objective.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 2 - Residential Gas, Electric and Steam Utility Service › 50 - Residential Water Service.

§ 50. Residential  water  service.  Every water-works corporation with
  gross revenues in excess of two hundred  fifty  thousand  dollars  shall
  provide  residential  service in accordance with all relevant provisions
  of this article. The commission shall adopt such rules  and  regulations
  as  it  deems  necessary  and proper to implement the provisions of this
  section.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 2 - Residential Gas, Electric and Steam Utility Service › 53 - Application.

§  53. Application. For purposes of this article, a reference to a gas
  corporation, an electric corporation, a utility company,  or  a  utility
  corporation  shall  include,  but is not limited to, any entity that, in
  any manner, sells or facilitates  the  sale  or  furnishing  of  gas  or
  electricity to residential customers. No provision of this article or of
  this  chapter  authorizes or permits the provision of gas or electricity
  service by any such corporation or other entity in any manner other than
  in full compliance with the provisions of this article or  to  authorize
  the  commission to waive compliance with any requirement of this article
  for any such corporation or other entity.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 2 - Residential Gas, Electric and Steam Utility Service › 53-A - Prohibition of Utilities Engaging in Detrimental Conduct Towards a Residential Customer.

§  53-a.  Prohibition  of  utilities  engaging  in detrimental conduct
  towards  a  residential  customer.   1.   A   utility   corporation   or
  municipality,  or  energy services companies subject to the department's
  uniform business practices and  section  three  hundred  forty-nine  and
  three  hundred  forty-nine-d  of the general business law, also known as
  ESCOs, shall not engage in any conduct the natural consequence of  which
  is  to  harass, oppress, or abuse any residential customer in connection
  with the handling of a  residential  customer  complaint,  the  offering
  and/or negotiating of a deferred payment agreement, or the collection of
  an unpaid balance or any other obligation owed by such customer.
2.  All utilities or municipal utilities or ESCOs in violation of this
  section shall be subject to fines,  penalties  and  enforcement  by  the
  department pursuant to sections twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-five-a,
  and  twenty-six  of  this chapter, and all such other legal or equitable
  remedies as may be necessary or convenient for protection  of  consumers
  against  the  prohibited  behaviors described in subdivision one of this
  section.
3. The commission shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary  to
  implement and enforce the provisions of this section.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 3-C - Provisions Relating to Liquid Petroleum Pipeline Corporations › 63-EE - Application of Article.

§ 63-ee. Application  of  article.    This  article shall apply to the
  conveying, transportation and furnishing of  petroleum  and  other  such
  flammable  liquids,  for  any  purpose,  by  way of pipeline. Within the
  meaning of any provision of this article, the term, "liquid  petroleum",
  shall   include  crude  oil,  natural  gasoline,  natural  gas  liquids,
  liquefied petroleum gas, liquid petroleum products and  any  other  such
  flammable liquids.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 3-C - Provisions Relating to Liquid Petroleum Pipeline Corporations › 63-FF - Powers of the Commission in Respect to Liquid Petroleum Pipeline Safety.

§ 63-ff. Powers  of  the  commission  in  respect  to liquid petroleum
  pipeline safety. The commission shall:
1. Have general supervision over the safety standards  of  all  liquid
  petroleum  pipeline  corporations  having authority under any general or
  special law or under any charter or franchise to lay down  and  maintain
  pipelines,  ducts  or conduits under or above the surface of any area of
  the state for the purpose of the conveying, transporting and  furnishing
  of liquid petroleum and any other such flammable liquids.
2.  Examine  or  investigate  the  methods  employed in the conveying,
  transporting and furnishing of  liquid  petroleum  in  and  through  the
  state, and have the power to order such reasonable improvements as would
  best  promote  the  public  interest and preserve and protect the public
  health and safety, and in the pursuit of same, establish a basic code of
  liquid petroleum pipeline safety rules and regulations.
3. Have the power, either  through  its  members,  or  inspectors,  or
  employees  duly  authorized  by  it,  to  enter  upon and to inspect the
  property, pipes, ducts and conduits of any corporation  engaged  in  the
  transportation of petroleum via pipeline.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Gas and Electric Corporations; Regulation of Price of Gas and Electricity › 64 - Application of Article.

§ 64. Application  of  article.    This  article  shall  apply  to the
  manufacture, conveying, transportation and furnishing of gas (natural or
  manufactured or mixture of both)  for  light,  heat  or  power  and  the
  generation,  furnishing  and transmission of electricity for light, heat
  or power. Within the meaning of any provision of this article,  each  of
  the  terms  "gas  corporation"  and  "electric  corporation"  also shall
  include a gas and electric corporation, that is, such a  corporation  as
  is  organized for the objects and purposes of both a gas corporation and
  an electric corporation, as the  context  of  such  provisions  and  the
  powers  actually  exercised  by  such  gas  and electric corporation may
  require.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Gas and Electric Corporations; Regulation of Price of Gas and Electricity › 65-A - Notification to Social Services Officials.

§ 65-a. Notification  to  social  services  officials.  The commission
  shall, to the extent not inconsistent with other  requirements  of  law,
  establish  requirements  relating  to the notification of an appropriate
  social services official by a gas corporation, electric  corporation  or
  municipality  that  payment  for  utility  services  furnished  a person
  receiving public assistance, supplemental security  income  benefits  or
  additional  state  payments  pursuant to the social services law has not
  been made and such person is known by the corporation or municipality to
  be a recipient of such assistance, benefits or payments. The  commission
  shall  consult with the office of temporary and disability assistance in
  fulfilling the objectives of this section.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Gas and Electric Corporations; Regulation of Price of Gas and Electricity › 65-B - Service to Persons Applying for or Receiving Public Assistance, Supplemental Security Income Benefits or Additional State Payments.

§ 65-b. Service   to   persons   applying   for  or  receiving  public
  assistance, supplemental security income benefits  or  additional  state
  payments. No gas corporation, electric corporation or municipality shall
  refuse to supply or to continue to supply utility services to any person
  who  has  applied  for  or  is receiving public assistance, supplemental
  security income benefits, or additional state payments pursuant  to  the
  social  services  law, solely on the grounds that there may be money due
  to the utility  corporation  or  municipality  for  services  previously
  furnished  to  such  person,  if the utility corporation or municipality
  receives, or is entitled to receive, a  direct  payment  or  receives  a
  guarantee of payment from a social services district.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Gas and Electric Corporations; Regulation of Price of Gas and Electricity › 66-B - Continuation of Gas Service.

§ 66-b. Continuation of gas service. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions
  of  section sixty-six-a of this chapter, no gas customer shall be denied
  a  continuation  of   gas   service   following   the   demolition   and
  reconstruction  of  any  structure  or  structures  owned  by  any  such
  customer, provided that any such reconstructed structure  or  structures
  are on the same parcel of real property, reconstruction commences within
  one  year  of  demolition  and  the  new  structure or structures do not
  materially increase the customer's gas usage.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Gas and Electric Corporations; Regulation of Price of Gas and Electricity › 66-D - Contract Carrier Authorization.

§ 66-d. Contract  carrier  authorization.  1.  For  purposes  of  this
  section the term natural gas shall mean natural gas produced within  the
  state  or  transported  within  the  state  no matter where produced for
  consumption in the state.
2. The commission, upon its own initiative or upon  application  by  a
  natural  gas producer or a consumer of natural gas in any year and after
  notice and hearing shall, upon such terms and subject to such conditions
  as the commission considers just and reasonable, have the  authority  to
  order  any  gas  corporation  to  transport  or  contract with others to
  transport gas under contract for sale by such producer or owned by  such
  consumer  provided  that,  the commission finds that the gas corporation
  has available capacity, that no undue burden shall be  placed  upon  the
  gas  corporation  or  its  ratepayers  and  that  the ability of the gas
  corporation to render adequate service to its customers is not impaired.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Gas and Electric Corporations; Regulation of Price of Gas and Electricity › 66-E - Monitoring of Natural Gas Procurement.

§ 66-e. Monitoring of natural gas procurement. 1. The commission shall
  continue  to  monitor natural gas procurement contracts and practices of
  gas  corporations  and  determine  whether  any  of  such  practices  or
  provisions of any such contracts are anti-competitive in force or effect
  or  otherwise  contrary  to  the  public interest. Such monitoring shall
  include an examination of the prevailing market prices in the state  for
  gas supplies including domestic producer prices for natural gas.
2.  In  any  application  for a rate increase, a gas corporation shall
  show all sources of its gas supply and anticipated changes  thereof  and
  demonstrate that other dependable and adequate lower priced supplies are
  not  available.  Where any of such sources is an affiliated company, the
  applicant shall have  the  burden  to  prove  all  related  natural  gas
  purchase   or   transportation   prices  and  conditions  are  fair  and
  reasonable.
3. The commission shall,  upon  complaint  or  upon  its  own  motion,
  investigate  the  circumstances  under  which  existing  gas procurement
  contracts  were  made.  Where  the  commission  concludes  that  a   gas
  corporation  was  imprudent  in  the  making  or  administration of such
  contract, the commission shall exercise its authority to limit the rates
  charged by such gas corporation to amounts no higher  than  those  which
  would  have  been  justified  had  such  corporation  acted in a prudent
  manner.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Gas and Electric Corporations; Regulation of Price of Gas and Electricity › 66-G - Sale of Indigenous Natural Gas for Generation of Electricity.

§ 66-g. Sale  of indigenous natural gas for generation of electricity.
  1. The commission shall require an electric corporation  to  enter  into
  long-term  contracts  to  purchase  or  wheel  electricity produced from
  indigenous natural gas supplies at the well site under  such  terms  and
  conditions as the commission shall find just and economically reasonable
  to  such corporation's customers, non-discriminatory to the producers of
  electricity from indigenous  natural  gas  supplies,  and  furthers  the
  public  policy  of  this  section  and  state  energy  policy; provided,
  however, the minimum sales price shall be no  lower  than  the  electric
  corporation's  avoided  cost. For the purpose of this section indigenous
  natural gas shall mean natural gas produced from  wells  located  within
  the state.
2.  Nothing contained in this section shall require an electric or gas
  corporation to  construct  any  additional  facilities  to  satisfy  its
  obligations  hereunder,  unless  such facilities are paid for in full by
  the producer or producers of indigenous natural gas.
3.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of  law,  a  producer   of
  indigenous  natural  gas whose natural gas activities are limited to the
  production, sale and/or transportation of indigenous natural  gas  to  a
  gas   corporation  or  a  gas  pipeline,  the  production,  sale  and/or
  transportation of indigenous natural gas to the facilities of less  than
  twenty  industrial  or  commercial  users,  the  production, sale and/or
  transportation  of  natural  gas  to  a  co-generation   or   electrical
  generating  facility,  the  production  of  electricity  from indigenous
  natural gas at the well site for sale to an electric corporation, or any
  combination thereof, shall not be subject to  the  jurisdiction  of  the
  commission  except  (a)  with respect to the safety of the construction,
  operation or maintenance of its gas plant and the certification of major
  utility transmission facilities under article VII of  this  chapter  and
  (b) that such producer of indigenous natural gas that does not retain or
  transport  such  gas for his own use but rather sells or transports such
  gas to industrial or commercial users shall maintain  a  record  of  the
  volumes  of  such  gas  sold or transported to such users. Such producer
  shall submit these records annually to the commission on or  before  the
  thirty-first day of March.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Gas and Electric Corporations; Regulation of Price of Gas and Electricity › 66-H - Certain Electric Corporations; Payment Equivalent to Tax.

§ 66-h. Certain  electric corporations; payment equivalent to tax. The
  commission  shall  require  each  electric  corporation  that  purchases
  electricity  from  an  energy  business as defined in subdivision (c) of
  section three hundred one-i of the tax law (1) that is  a  co-generation
  facility, as such term is defined in subdivision two-a of section two of
  this  chapter,  or  (2)  that  is a qualifying facility, as such term is
  defined by section two hundred one  of  the  Public  Utility  Regulatory
  Policies  Act  of  1978  (Public  Law  95-617)  that  is a co-generation
  facility, or (3) that has executed or will execute a  contract  for  the
  sale  of electricity through negotiation with an electric corporation or
  an  auction  conducted  by  an  electric  corporation  pursuant   to   a
  competitive bidding plan approved by the commission, to pay, in addition
  to  payments  made  for such purchased electricity under a contract with
  such electric corporation, (i) an amount equal to the tax imposed  under
  article  thirteen-A  of  the tax law with respect to each Mcf of natural
  gas used to generate such electricity and (ii) with respect to contracts
  for the sale of electricity  and/or  steam  executed  prior  to  January
  first,  two  thousand,  any  sales and compensating use taxes imposed on
  natural gas used in the production of electricity  and/or  steam  by  or
  pursuant to the authority of section eleven hundred seven or subdivision
  (a)  of section twelve hundred ten of the tax law, unless such sales and
  compensating use taxes  imposed  are  otherwise  accounted  for  in  the
  payments  the  electric corporation makes under that contract; provided,
  however, that any such amount paid by such electric corporation shall be
  recovered  through  a  fuel  adjustment  mechanism  authorized  by   the
  commission;  provided,  further, that such amount shall not be recovered
  from charges for residential use provided by such electric corporation.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Gas and Electric Corporations; Regulation of Price of Gas and Electricity › 66-N - Net Metering Study.

§  66-n.  Net  metering study. The commission shall conduct a study to
  analyze the economic and environmental benefits from  and  the  economic
  cost  burden,  if any, of the net energy metering program and to analyze
  the extent to which ratepayers receiving service under  the  net  energy
  metering  program  are paying the full cost of services provided to them
  by combined electric and gas corporations and gas corporations, and  the
  extent  to  which their customers pay a share of costs of public purpose
  programs through assessments on their  electric  and/or  gas  bills.  In
  analyzing program costs and benefits for the purposes of this study, the
  commission   shall  consider  all  electricity  generated  by  renewable
  electric generating systems eligible for  net  metering  under  sections
  sixty-six-j  and  sixty-six-l of this article, including the electricity
  used onsite to reduce the customer's  consumption  of  electricity  that
  would  otherwise  be  supplied  through  the electrical grid, as well as
  electrical output that is being fed back  to  the  electrical  grid  for
  which   the   customer   receives  credit  or  net  surplus  electricity
  compensation  under  net  energy  metering.  As  it   relates   to   the
  environmental benefits, the study shall quantify the approximate avoided
  level  of  harmful  emissions including, but not limited to, information
  concerning: nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide, as well
  as other air pollutants deemed necessary and appropriate  for  study  by
  the  commission.  The  study  shall also quantify the economic costs and
  benefits of net energy metering to participants and non-participants and
  shall further disaggregate the results by utility. The study shall  also
  gather  and  present  data on the income distribution of residential net
  metering participants that is publicly available and aggregated  by  zip
  code  and  county. In order to assess the economic costs and benefits at
  various levels of  net  metering  implementation,  the  study  shall  be
  conducted using multiple net energy metering penetration scenarios.
The  commission  shall  publish a report from its findings. The report
  must be published within three hundred sixty-five days of the  effective
  date  of  this  section.  A  copy of the report must be furnished to the
  temporary president of the Senate, the  speaker  of  the  Assembly,  the
  chair  of  the  Senate  energy  and telecommunications committee and the
  chair of the Assembly energy committee.