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2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Gas and Electric Corporations; Regulation of Price of Gas and Electricity › 66-O - Electric Vehicle Charging Tariff.

§ 66-o. Electric vehicle charging tariff. 1. Definitions. For purposes
of  this  section,  the term "eligible vehicle" shall mean and include a
motor vehicle that:
(a) has four wheels;
(b) was manufactured for use primarily on public  streets,  roads  and
highways;
(c)  the  powertrain  of which has not been modified from the original
manufacturer's specifications;
(d) is rated at not more than eight thousand five hundred pounds gross
vehicle weight;
(e) has a maximum speed capability of at least  fifty-five  miles  per
hour; and
(f)  is propelled at least in part by an electric motor and associated
power electronics which provide acceleration torque to the drive  wheels
sometime  during  normal  vehicle operations, and that draws electricity
from a hydrogen fuel cell or from a battery that:
(i) has a capacity of not less than four kilowatt hours; and
(ii) is  capable  of  being  recharged  from  an  external  source  of
electricity.
2.  No  later than April first, two thousand eighteen each combination
gas  and  electric  corporation  shall  file  an  application  with  the
commission  to  establish a residential tariff for eligible vehicles for
the purpose of recharging an eligible vehicle or vehicles.
3. The commission shall,  after  notice  and  opportunity  for  public
comment, approve, modify, or reject the tariff.
4.  Within  sixty days of commission approval of a combination gas and
electric corporation's tariff filed under this section, such combination
gas  and  electric  corporation  shall  make  the  tariff  available  to
customers.
5.  The  combination  gas  and  electric  corporation  may at any time
propose revisions to a tariff filed under this section based on changing
costs or conditions.
6. Each combination gas and electric corporation  providing  a  tariff
under  this  section  shall  periodically  report  to the commission, as
established  by  the  commission  and  on  a  form  prescribed  by   the
commission, the following information:
(a)  the  number  of  customers  who have arranged to have electricity
delivered under the tariff;
(b) the total amount of electricity delivered under the tariff; and
(c) other data required by the commission.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Gas and Electric Corporations; Regulation of Price of Gas and Electricity › 66-Q - Gas and Electric Billing Information for Residential Rental Premises.

* §  66-p. Gas and electric billing information for residential rental
  premises. Every gas corporation, electric corporation  and  municipality
  shall  make  available  to  any landlord or lessor of residential rental
  premises, within ten days of receipt of a written request therefor  from
  any  prospective  tenant or lessee thereof, prior to the commencement of
  tenancy or execution of a lease, information consisting of  the  charges
  incurred  at  such  premises for gas or electric service or both for the
  life of the dwelling unit or the preceding two year period, whichever is
  shorter. Such information shall be identified solely by the  address  of
  the  dwelling  unit,  and  no  other  information identifying the owner,
  lessee, or other occupant of the dwelling unit shall be utilized for, or
  made available in connection with, the furnishing of billing information
  pursuant to this section. Such information shall be  furnished  to  both
  the  landlord  or lessor and to the prospective tenant or lessee without
  the imposition of any charge or fee therefor by any party to any party.
* NB Effective until October 1, 2021
* § 66-q. Gas and electric billing information for residential  rental
  premises.  Every  gas corporation, electric corporation and municipality
  shall make available to any landlord or  lessor  of  residential  rental
  premises,  within ten days of receipt of a written request therefor from
  any prospective tenant or lessee thereof, prior to the  commencement  of
  tenancy  or  execution of a lease, information consisting of the charges
  incurred at such premises for gas or electric service or  both  for  the
  life of the dwelling unit or the preceding two year period, whichever is
  shorter.  Such  information shall be identified solely by the address of
  the dwelling unit, and  no  other  information  identifying  the  owner,
  lessee, or other occupant of the dwelling unit shall be utilized for, or
  made available in connection with, the furnishing of billing information
  pursuant  to  this  section. Such information shall be furnished to both
  the landlord or lessor and to the prospective tenant or  lessee  without
  the imposition of any charge or fee therefor by any party to any party.
* NB Effective October 1, 2021
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Gas and Electric Corporations; Regulation of Price of Gas and Electricity › 66-U - Gas Safety Reports.

§  66-u.  Gas  safety reports. 1. On or before April thirtieth of each
  year, each gas corporation shall file with the department a  gas  safety
  report.  The  department  shall  review  the reports to monitor each gas
  corporation's pipeline replacement projects  and  all  other  activities
  related to providing safe and reliable gas service in order to determine
  whether  the  projects  or  activities are being carried out in a manner
  consistent with this chapter, the commission's  rules,  regulations  and
  orders,  and  any  practice  the department has deemed necessary for the
  provision of safe and reliable  service,  and  to  track  how  each  gas
  corporation  is  spending  any  funds allocated for pipeline replacement
  projects and all other activities related to providing safe and reliable
  gas service.
2. The gas safety report provided  for  in  subdivision  one  of  this
  section  shall  include  a  thorough  description and explanation of the
  strategic planning and decision-making methodology used to determine and
  prioritize  pipeline  replacement  projects,  a   description   of   the
  corporation's  operation  and  maintenance  activities  related  to  gas
  safety, a description of the corporation's inspections of its intrastate
  transmission and distribution lines, leak repair  information,  and  any
  other  information  the  department  may  require.  If there has been no
  substantial change in a gas corporation's safety report  since  the  gas
  safety  report most recently filed with the department, the corporation,
  with consent of the department, may file  an  updated  version  of  such
  report.
2-a. A gas corporation shall also include with its gas safety report a
  list  of  pipeline  replacement  projects completed by a gas corporation
  within the last year.
3. The commission may take any action  to  address  and/or  prevent  a
  deficiency  in  a  gas corporation's prioritization or administration of
  its  pipeline  replacement  projects  or   operation   and   maintenance
  activities   related   to  gas  safety,  including  ordering  reasonable
  improvements that will best promote the public  interest,  preserve  the
  public  health  and  protect  those  using  gas pursuant to those powers
  provided to the commission as provided in this  chapter,  including  but
  not limited to those in section sixty-six of this article.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Gas and Electric Corporations; Regulation of Price of Gas and Electricity › 66-V - Requirements for Certain Climate Risk-Related and Energy Transition Projects.

§  66-v.  Requirements  for  certain  climate  risk-related and energy
  transition projects. 1. Each contract using  funds  from  the  New  York
  climate  action  fund climate investment account established pursuant to
  section ninety-nine-qq of the state finance law for  a  covered  climate
  risk-related  and  energy  transition  project shall contain a provision
  that the iron and steel used or  supplied  in  the  performance  of  the
  contract or any subcontract thereto and that is permanently incorporated
  into the project, shall be produced or made in whole or substantial part
  in  the United States, its territories or possessions. In the case of an
  iron or steel product, all manufacturing must take place in  the  United
  States,  its  territories or possessions, from the initial melting stage
  through the application  of  coatings,  except  metallurgical  processes
  involving  the  refinement  of steel additives. For the purposes of this
  subdivision, "permanently incorporated" shall  mean  an  iron  or  steel
  product  that  is  required to remain in place at the end of the project
  contract, in a fixed location, affixed to the project to  which  it  was
  incorporated.  Iron  and  steel products that are capable of being moved
  from one  location  to  another  shall  not  be  considered  permanently
  incorporated.
2.  The  provisions of subdivision one of this section shall not apply
  if the head of the public entity providing funds, in  his  or  her  sole
  discretion,  determines  that  the provisions would not be in the public
  interest, would result in unreasonable costs,  or  that  obtaining  such
  steel or iron in the United States, its territories or possessions would
  increase  the  cost  of  the contract by an unreasonable amount, or such
  iron or steel, including without limitation iron and  steel,  cannot  be
  produced  or made in the United States its territories or possessions in
  sufficient and  reasonably  available  quantities  and  of  satisfactory
  quality.
3.  The  head  of the public entity providing funds generated from the
  New York climate action  fund  climate  investment  account  established
  pursuant  to section ninety-nine-qq of the state finance law may, in his
  or  her  sole  discretion,  provide  for  in  a  request  for  proposal,
  invitation  for  bid,  or  solicitation of proposal, or any other method
  provided for by  law  or  regulation  for  soliciting  a  response  from
  offerors  intending  to  result in a contract in support of a project, a
  competitive process in which the  evaluation  of  competing  bids  gives
  significant  consideration  in the evaluation process to the procurement
  of equipment and supplies from businesses located in New York state.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Gas and Electric Corporations; Regulation of Price of Gas and Electricity › 66-W - Finality of Charges; Non-Residential Customers.

* §  66-w.  Finality  of  charges;  small  non-residential  customers.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law if a utility  corporation  or
  municipality does not render a small non-residential customer for gas or
  electric  service,  with  the  exception  of  a  seasonal  or short-term
  customer as defined by rule of the commission, a monthly  bill  for  gas
  and/or  electric  services  used  by  such  customer during that monthly
  period, or, in the case of bi-monthly meter reads, during that month and
  the prior month, within three months from the end date of  such  monthly
  billing  period,  then, such small non-residential customer shall not be
  charged for such gas and electric services which were not billed to  the
  customer  as  provided  herein, unless the failure of the corporation or
  municipality  to  bill  sooner  was  not  due  to  the  neglect  of  the
  corporation  or  municipality  or was due to the culpable conduct of the
  customer. The  commission  shall  promulgate  regulations  necessary  to
  effectuate  the  purposes  of  this  section.  For  the purposes of this
  section, "small non-residential customer" means non-residential electric
  customers that are non-demand billed customers and  non-residential  gas
  customers  that  use less than or equal to 750 dekatherms per year. Such
  term shall not include street lighting accounts.
* NB Effective June 19, 2024
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Gas and Electric Corporations; Regulation of Price of Gas and Electricity › 67 - Inspection of Gas and Electric Meters.

§ 67. Inspection  of gas and electric meters.  1. The commission shall
  appoint inspectors of electric and gas meters whose duty  it  shall  be,
  when  required  by the commission, to inspect, examine and ascertain the
  accuracy of any and all electric and gas meters used or intended  to  be
  used  for measuring and ascertaining the quantity of electric current or
  gas furnished for light, heat or power by  any  person,  corporation  or
  municipality  to  or  for  the  use of any person or corporation, and to
  inspect, examine and ascertain the accuracy of all apparatus for testing
  and proving the accuracy of electric and gas meters, and when  found  to
  be  or  made  to  be  correct the inspector shall stamp or mark all such
  meters and apparatus with some suitable device, which  device  shall  be
  recorded  in  the  office  of  the secretary of state.   No corporation,
  person or municipality shall furnish, set or put in use any electric  or
  gas  meter  the  type  of  which  shall  not  have  been approved by the
  commission.
2. Every gas corporation, electric corporation and municipality  shall
  provide,  repair  and  maintain such suitable premises and apparatus and
  facilities as may be required and approved by the commission for testing
  and proving the accuracy of gas and electric meters furnished for use by
  it, and by which apparatus every meter may be tested.
3. If any consumer to whom a meter has been  furnished  shall  request
  the  commission  in  writing to inspect such meter, the commission shall
  have the same inspected and tested;  provided,  however,  that  repeated
  inspections and tests shall not be mandatory.
4.  The commission shall prescribe such rules and regulations to carry
  into effect the provisions of this section as it may deem necessary.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Gas and Electric Corporations; Regulation of Price of Gas and Electricity › 67-A - Charges for Past Services.

§ 67-a. Charges  for  past  services. 1. A gas or electric corporation
  shall inspect and assure the accuracy of  a  metering  device  upon  the
  request of any new commercial customer.
2.  No  gas  corporation  or electric corporation shall charge its new
  commercial customer for past services received if the failure to  charge
  for such services resulted from the faulty operation or inoperation of a
  metering  device which the gas or electric corporation failed to inspect
  as provided in subdivision one of this section.
3. The provisions of this section shall not apply in  the  case  of  a
  meter  which  is faulty or inoperable due to the culpable conduct of the
  customer or one of his agents.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Gas and Electric Corporations; Regulation of Price of Gas and Electricity › 68-A - Statements of Nature and Extent of Interests to Be Filed Upon Request.

§ 68-a. Statements  of nature and extent of interests to be filed upon
  request.   Whenever any person or corporation  signs  or  certifies  any
  estimate,  appraisal, report, or other statement, to be submitted to the
  public service commission in relation to any public utility company,  in
  which  such person or corporation is or has been financially interested,
  directly or indirectly, or is or has been  employed  in  any  manner  or
  capacity, or of which such person is or has been an officer or employee,
  the  commission  in  its  discretion, may require that such signature or
  certification shall be accompanied by a specific statement setting forth
  the nature and extent of such interest or engagement.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Gas and Electric Corporations; Regulation of Price of Gas and Electricity › 69-A - Reorganizations.

§ 69-a. Reorganizations.    1. Reorganizations of gas corporations and
  electric corporations pursuant to sections ninety-six  and  ninety-seven
  of  the  stock corporation law and such other statutes as may be enacted
  from time to time shall be subject to the supervision and control of the
  commission,  and  no  such  reorganization  shall  be  had  without  the
  authorization of such commission.
2.  Upon  all  such  reorganizations  the  amount  of  capitalization,
  including  therein  all  stocks  and  bonds  and   other   evidence   of
  indebtedness,  shall  be such as is authorized by the commission, which,
  in making its determination shall not  exceed  the  fair  value  of  the
  property  involved,  taking  into  consideration  its  original  cost of
  construction, duplication cost,  present  condition,  earning  power  at
  reasonable  rates  and all other relevant matters and any additional sum
  or sums as shall be actually paid in cash, provided, however,  that  the
  commission   may   make   due  allowance  for  discount  of  bonds.  Any
  reorganization agreement before it becomes effective shall be amended so
  that the amount of capitalization shall conform to the amount authorized
  by the commission.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Gas and Electric Corporations; Regulation of Price of Gas and Electricity › 70-A - Street Lights.

§  70-a. Street lights. 1. Any municipality or other government entity
proposing to acquire title to and transfer  ownership  of  the  complete
system   of   street   light  luminaires  or  fixtures,  all  supporting
infrastructure,  and  associated  electric   circuitry   may   file   an
application with the commission to determine if there is public interest
for  the  commission to commence a proceeding to facilitate an ownership
transfer agreement between the  owner  of  the  street  lights  and  the
petitioning municipality.
2.  The  municipality  shall  file  an application with the commission
identifying or providing:
(a) an inventory form with pole numbers, location, light  size,  light
type  and  other  relevant  descriptive  information;  upon  request  an
electric corporation shall provide such information  required  based  on
the actual cost, if any, to prepare the same;
(b)  a  statement  explaining  the  need  for  the change in ownership
including the anticipated financial impacts to the municipality;
(c) a statement explaining the municipality's plans  to  retrofit  the
fixtures to be acquired with energy efficient lighting; and
(d)  such  other information as the applicant may consider relevant or
as the commission may require.
3. Any such application filed with the commission shall be accompanied
by proof of service, and shall be served on the owner or owners  of  the
street  light  equipment and supporting infrastructure which are subject
to such proceeding. The applicant shall serve a copy of such application
on such other persons or entities as the chair may deem appropriate. The
applicant, the commission and those served shall constitute the  parties
to a proceeding pursuant to this section.
4.  The  commission  shall  require  any utility named as a party to a
proceeding pursuant to this section to have an  effective  tariff  which
establishes  the  process  to  facilitate  the  transfer of ownership of
street light equipment,  including  light  emitting  diodes,  supporting
infrastructure,  any required street lighting attachment provisions, and
the rates and charges related to the foregoing.
5. The  commission  shall  require  that  any  agreement  between  the
municipality  and  the  owner of the street lighting system provide that
any  personnel  that  work  on  such  street  lighting  system  will  be
electrically  qualified  to accommodate the environment within which the
street  light  equipment  shall  exist  and/or  be  in  compliance  with
established  standards  associated  with  work  in  close  proximity  to
electrical equipment and further provide that  any  required  make-ready
work must be performed by the utility or qualified contractor.
6.  The  commission shall work with the New York state energy research
and development authority  to  identify  energy  efficiency  or  of  the
funding  which would be available for municipalities for the purposes of
the section.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Gas and Electric Corporations; Regulation of Price of Gas and Electricity › 71 - Complaints as to Quality and Price of Gas and Electricity; Investigation by Commission; Forms of Complaints.

§ 71. Complaints  as  to  quality  and  price  of gas and electricity;
  investigation by commission; forms of complaints. Upon the complaint  in
  writing  of  the  mayor  of  a city, the trustees of a village, the town
  board of a town or the chief executive officer or the  legislative  body
  of  a  county  in  which  a  person  or  corporation  is  authorized  to
  manufacture, convey, transport, sell or supply gas  or  electricity  for
  heat,  light or power, or upon the complaint in writing of not less than
  twenty-five customers or purchasers of such gas or electricity, or  upon
  the complaint in writing of the department of state, or upon a complaint
  of a gas corporation or electrical corporation supplying or transmitting
  said gas or electricity, as to the illuminating or heating power, purity
  or  pressure or the rates, charges or classifications of service of gas,
  the efficiency of the electric incandescent lamp supply, the voltage  of
  the  current  supplied for light, heat or power, or the rates charged or
  classification of service of electricity  sold  and  delivered  in  such
  municipality,  or as to the extent or duration of a disruption in gas or
  electricity service, the commission shall investigate as  to  the  cause
  for  such complaint. When such complaint is made, the commission may, by
  its agents, examiners and inspectors, inspect the works, system,  plant,
  devices,  appliances  and  methods used by such person or corporation in
  manufacturing, transmitting and supplying such gas or  electricity,  and
  may examine or cause to be examined the books and papers of such person,
  or  corporation  pertaining  to  the manufacture, sale, transmitting and
  supplying  of  such  gas  or  electricity.  The  form  and  contents  of
  complaints  made  as provided in this section shall be prescribed by the
  commission. Such complaints shall be signed by the officers, or  by  the
  customers,  purchasers or subscribers making them, who must add to their
  signatures their places of residence, by street and number, if any.  The
  commission  shall  publish  the form and instructions for completing the
  form on the commission's website.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Gas and Electric Corporations; Regulation of Price of Gas and Electricity › 72-A - Increased Fuel Costs.

§ 72-a. Increased  fuel  costs.  Every  gas  and  electric corporation
subject to the jurisdiction  of  the  commission  shall  file  with  the
commission,  on  a  monthly  basis,  the following information regarding
increased fuel costs:
(a) what services are affected by the fuel increase;
(b) base cost of the fuel;
(c) name and address of supplier;
(d) point of delivery of all fuel purchased;
(e) present average cost of fuel to said corporation;
(f) dates used to determine average;
(g) amount per unit of consumption affected; and
(h) amount of fuel in storage at the end of each monthly period.
(i) and such other relevant information as the commission 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 › 73-A - Prioritization of Emergency Services.

§  73-a.  Prioritization  of  emergency  services.  1.  If,  during  a
  widespread prolonged  outage  that  affects  at  least  twenty  thousand
  customers  in the service territory of an electric corporation, and such
  corporation is not  able  to  restore  electric  power  services  within
  twenty-four  hours  to  any affected police department, fire department,
  ambulance service  or  advanced  life  support  first  response  service
  facility  that is prewired with an appropriate transfer switch for using
  an alternate generated power source,  such  electric  corporation  shall
  notify the village, town or city in which such facility is located.
2. Towns, cities, and villages shall provide to counties, and counties
  shall,  to the extent practicable, provide the electric corporations and
  the division of homeland security and emergency services with a list  of
  such  police  departments,  fire  departments,  ambulance  services  and
  advanced life  support  first  response  services  located  within  such
  municipality's  territorial  boundaries within one year of the effective
  date of this section, and periodically thereafter as necessary to update
  such list.
3. For the  purposes  of  this  section,  "alternate  generated  power
  source" shall mean electric generating equipment that is of the capacity
  that  is  capable  of providing adequate electricity to operate all life
  safety systems and the basic operations of  a  police  department,  fire
  department,  ambulance  service  or advanced life support first response
  service.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Gas and Electric Corporations; Regulation of Price of Gas and Electricity › 74 - Energy Storage Deployment Policy.

§  74.  Energy  storage  deployment policy. 1. As used in this section
"qualified energy storage  system"  shall  mean  commercially  available
technology  that is capable of absorbing energy, storing it for a period
of  time,  and  thereafter  dispatching  the  energy  using  mechanical,
chemical, or thermal processes to store energy that was generated at one
time for use at a later time.
2.  By  December  thirty-first,  two thousand eighteen, the commission
shall, in consultation with the  New  York  state  energy  research  and
development   authority,  the  Long  Island  power  authority,  and  the
federally designated electric bulk system operator for New  York  state,
after   a  hearing  held  on  notice,  establish  by  order,  rules  and
regulations, both a two thousand thirty  energy  storage  goal  for  the
state  and  a deployment policy to support that goal. The energy storage
deployment  policy  shall  assist  with  and  take  the  following  into
consideration:
(a)   avoided   or   deferred   costs  associated  with  transmission,
distribution, and/or generation capacity;
(b) minimization of peak load in constrained areas;
(c) systems that are connected to customer facilities and systems that
are directly connected to transmission and distribution facilities;
(d) cost-effectiveness;
(e) the integration of variable-output energy resources;
(f) reducing emissions of greenhouse gases;
(g) reducing demand for peak electrical generation;
(h) improving the reliable operation of the electrical transmission or
distribution systems; and
(i) such other issues deemed appropriate by the commission.
3. To the extent that the energy storage deployment policy directs the
procurement of qualified  energy  storage  systems  to  encourage  their
deployment,  such  procurements  shall  be awarded through a competitive
process.
4. Annual reports on the achievements and effectiveness of the  policy
shall  be  submitted  to  the  governor,  the temporary president of the
senate, and the speaker of the assembly.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Gas and Electric Corporations; Regulation of Price of Gas and Electricity › 74-A - Westchester County Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Resources Program.

§  74-a.  Westchester  county  renewable  energy and energy efficiency
  resources program. 1. Within ninety days of the effective date  of  this
  section,  the  commission shall, in consultation with the New York state
  energy research and development  authority,  after  a  hearing  held  on
  notice,  establish  by  order,  rules,  and  regulations,  a  program to
  encourage the installation of  renewable  energy  resources  and  energy
  efficiencies in the county of Westchester.
2.  For  the  purposes of this section, renewable energy resources and
  energy efficiency  shall  have  the  same  meaning  as  defined  by  the
  commission  and  consistent  with  the  most  recent  state  energy plan
  pursuant to article six of the energy law.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Gas and Electric Corporations; Regulation of Price of Gas and Electricity › 75 - Defense in Case of Excessive Charges for Gas or Electricity.

§ 75. Defense in case of excessive charges for gas or electricity.  If
  it  be alleged and established in an action brought in any court for the
  collection of any charge for gas or electricity, that a price  has  been
  demanded  in excess of that fixed by the commission or by statute in the
  municipality wherein the action arose, no recovery shall be had therein,
  but the fact that such excessive charges  have  been  made  shall  be  a
  complete defense to such action.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Gas and Electric Corporations; Regulation of Price of Gas and Electricity › 76 - Rates Charged Veteran Organizations, Religious Bodies and Community Residences.

§  76.  Rates  charged  veteran  organizations,  religious  bodies and
  community  residences.  No  gas  corporation,  electric  corporation  or
  municipality  shall,  directly or indirectly, charge, demand, collect or
  receive from any post or  hall  owned  or  leased  by  a  not-for-profit
  corporation   that  is  a  veterans'  organization,  or  corporation  or
  association  organized  and  conducted  in  good  faith  for   religious
  purposes,  including the operation by such corporation or association of
  a school, notwithstanding that  secular  subjects  are  taught  at  such
  school,  or  from  a  community  residence  as  defined  in  subdivision
  twenty-eight, twenty-eight-a or twenty-eight-b of section  1.03  of  the
  mental  hygiene  law,  provided,  however,  that such residence shall be
  operated by a not-for-profit corporation and if supervisory staff is  on
  site  on  a  twenty-four hour per day basis, that the residence provides
  living  accommodations  for  fourteen  or  fewer  residents,   a   rate,
  regardless  of  the  type  of  service  offered, for any gas or electric
  service  utilized  exclusively   in   connection   with   such   veteran
  organization  or  for such religious purposes or utilized exclusively at
  such community residence greater than  the  rates  or  charges  charged,
  demanded,  collected  or  received  by  such  gas  corporation, electric
  corporation  or   municipality   from   domestic   consumers   receiving
  single-phase service within the same village, town or municipality.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Gas and Electric Corporations; Regulation of Price of Gas and Electricity › 77 - Powers of Local Officers.

§ 77. Powers of local officers.  If in any city of the first or second
  class  there  now  exists or shall hereafter be created a board, body or
  officer having jurisdiction of matters pertaining  to  gas  or  electric
  service,  such  board,  body or officer shall have and may exercise such
  power, jurisdiction and authority in enforcing the laws of the state and
  the orders, rules and regulations of the commission as may be prescribed
  by statute or by the commission.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4-A - Provisions Relating to Steam Corporations; Regulating Price of Steam. › 81 - Approval of Incorporation and Franchises; Certificate.

§ 81. Approval of incorporation and franchises; certificate.  No steam
  corporation  shall  begin  construction  of  a steam plant without first
  having obtained the permission and approval of the commission.  No  such
  corporation  shall  exercise  any right or privilege under any franchise
  hereafter granted, or under any franchise  heretofore  granted  but  not
  heretofore  actually exercised, or the exercise of which shall have been
  suspended for more than one year,  without  first  having  obtained  the
  permission and approval of the commission. Before such certificate shall
  be  issued  a certified copy of the charter of such corporation shall be
  filed in  the  office  of  the  commission,  together  with  a  verified
  statement  of  the  president  and secretary of the corporation, showing
  that it has received  the  required  consent  of  the  proper  municipal
  authorities. The commission shall have power to grant the permission and
  approval  herein specified whenever it shall after due hearing determine
  that such construction or such  exercise  of  the  right,  privilege  or
  franchise is necessary or convenient for the public service.
No  municipality  shall  build,  maintain  and  operate for other than
  municipal  purposes  any  works  or  systems  for  the  manufacture  and
  supplying  of  steam  for  purposes  without  a certificate of authority
  granted by the commission. If the certificate of authority  is  refused,
  no  further  proceedings  shall be taken by such municipality before the
  commission, but a new application may be made therefor  after  one  year
  from the date of such refusal.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4-A - Provisions Relating to Steam Corporations; Regulating Price of Steam. › 82-A - Reorganizations.

§ 82-a. Reorganizations.    1.  Reorganizations  of steam corporations
  pursuant  to  sections  ninety-six  and  ninety-seven   of   the   stock
  corporation  law  and such other statutes as may be enacted from time to
  time shall be subject to the supervision and control of the  commission,
  and no such reorganization shall be had without the authorization of the
  commission.
2.  Upon  all  such  reorganizations  the  amount  of  capitalization,
  including  therein  all  stocks  and  bonds  and   other   evidence   of
  indebtedness,  shall  be such as is authorized by the commission, which,
  in making its determination shall not  exceed  the  fair  value  of  the
  property  involved,  taking  into  consideration  its  original  cost of
  construction, duplication cost,  present  condition,  earning  power  at
  reasonable  rates  and all other relevant matters and any additional sum
  or sums as shall be actually paid in cash, provided, however,  that  the
  commission   may   make   due  allowance  for  discount  of  bonds.  Any
  reorganization agreement before it becomes effective shall be amended so
  that the amount of capitalization shall conform to the amount authorized
  by the commission.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4-A - Provisions Relating to Steam Corporations; Regulating Price of Steam. › 84 - Complaints as to Service and Price of Steam Heat; Investigation by Commission; Forms of Complaints.

§ 84. Complaints  as to service and price of steam heat; investigation
  by commission; forms of complaints. Upon the complaint in writing of the
  mayor of the city, the trustees of a village or the town board of a town
  in which a person or corporation is authorized to manufacture,  sell  or
  supply  steam for heat or power, or upon the complaint in writing of not
  less than fifty customers or purchasers of such steam heat in cities  of
  the  first or second class, or of not less than twenty-five in cities of
  the third class, or  of  not  less  than  ten  elsewhere,  or  upon  the
  complaint  in  writing  of  the  department  of  state, as to the price,
  pressure or efficiency of steam supplied for heat  or  power,  sold  and
  delivered  in  such municipality, the commission shall investigate as to
  the  cause  for  such  complaint.  When  such  complaint  is  made,  the
  commission  may,  by  its  agents, examiners and inspectors, inspect the
  work, system, plant, devices, appliances and methods used by such person
  or corporation in manufacturing, transmitting and supplying such  steam,
  and  may  examine  or  cause to be examined the books and papers of such
  person or corporation pertaining to the manufacture, sale,  transmitting
  and supplying of such steam. The form and contents of complaints made as
  provided  in  this  section  shall be prescribed by the commission. Such
  complaint shall  be  signed  by  the  officers,  or  by  the  customers,
  purchasers  or subscribers making them, who must add to their signatures
  their place of residence, by street and number, if any.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4-A - Provisions Relating to Steam Corporations; Regulating Price of Steam. › 88 - Defense in Case of Excessive Charges for Steam Heat.

§ 88. Defense  in  case of excessive charges for steam heat.  If it be
  alleged and established in an  action  brought  in  any  court  for  the
  collection  of  any charge for steam for heat or power, that a price has
  been demanded in excess of that fixed by the commission or by statute in
  the municipality wherein the action arose,  no  recovery  shall  be  had
  therein,  but  the fact that such excessive charges have been made shall
  be a complete defense to such action.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4-A - Provisions Relating to Steam Corporations; Regulating Price of Steam. › 89 - Powers of Local Officers.

§ 89. Powers of local officers.  If in any city of the first or second
  class  there  now  exists or shall hereafter be created a board, body or
  officer  having  jurisdiction  of  matters  pertaining  to  steam  power
  service,  such  board,  body or officer shall have and may exercise such
  power, jurisdiction and authority in enforcing the laws of the state and
  the orders, rules and regulations of the commission as may be prescribed
  by statute or by the commission.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4-B - Provisions Relating to Water › 89-D - Inspection of Meters.

§ 89-d. Inspection  of  meters.    1.  The  commission  shall  appoint
  inspectors of water meters whose duty it shall be, when required by  the
  commission, to inspect, examine, prove and ascertain the accuracy of any
  and  all  water  meters  used  or  intended  to be used for measuring or
  ascertaining  the  quantity  of  water  furnished  by  any   water-works
  corporation  to  or  for  the  use  of any person or corporation, and to
  inspect, examine and ascertain the accuracy of all apparatus for testing
  and proving the accuracy of water meters, and, when found to be or  made
  to  be  correct,  the  inspector shall stamp or mark all such meters and
  apparatus with some suitable device, which device shall be  recorded  in
  the  office  of the secretary of state. No water-works corporation shall
  furnish, set or put in use any water meter the type of which  shall  not
  have been approved by the commission.
2.  Every  water-works  corporation shall provide, repair and maintain
  such suitable premises and apparatus and facilities as may  be  required
  and  approved  by the commission for testing and proving the accuracy of
  water meters furnished for use by it, and by which apparatus every meter
  may be tested.
3. If any consumer to whom a meter has been  furnished  shall  request
  the  commission  in  writing to inspect such meter, the commission shall
  have the same inspected and tested;  provided,  however,  that  repeated
  inspections and tests shall not be mandatory.
4.  The commission shall prescribe such rules and regulations to carry
  into effect the provisions of this section as it may deem necessary.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4-B - Provisions Relating to Water › 89-G - Reorganization.

§ 89-g. Reorganization.        1.   Reorganizations   of   water-works
  corporations pursuant to sections ninety-six  and  ninety-seven  of  the
  stock  corporation  law  and  such other statutes as may be enacted from
  time to time shall be subject to the  supervision  and  control  of  the
  commission,  and  no  such  reorganization  shall  be  had  without  the
  authorization of such commission.
2.  Upon  all  such  reorganizations  the  amount  of  capitalization,
  including   therein   all  stocks  and  bonds  and  other  evidences  of
  indebtedness, shall be such as is authorized by the  commission,  which,
  in  making  its  determination  shall  not  exceed the fair value of the
  property involved,  taking  into  consideration  its  original  cost  of
  construction,  duplication  cost,  present  condition,  earning power at
  reasonable rates and all other relevant matters and any  additional  sum
  or  sums  as shall be actually paid in cash, provided, however, that the
  commission  may  make  due  allowance  for  discount   of   bonds.   Any
  reorganization agreement before it becomes effective shall be amended so
  that the amount of capitalization shall conform to the amount authorized
  by the commission.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4-B - Provisions Relating to Water › 89-I - Complaints as to Price of Water; Investigation by Commission; Forms of Complaints.

§ 89-i. Complaints  as to price of water; investigation by commission;
  forms of complaints. Upon the complaint in writing of  the  mayor  of  a
  city,  the  trustees of a village or the town board of a town in which a
  person or corporation is authorized to supply or  distribute  water  for
  domestic, commercial or public uses, or upon the complaint in writing of
  not  less than twenty-five customers or purchasers of such water in such
  municipality or upon complaint of a  water-works  corporation  supplying
  such  water,  as to the rates, charges or classifications of service for
  water sold and delivered in such municipality, or upon the complaint  in
  writing  of  the  department  of state, or as to the methods employed in
  furnishing such service, the commission  shall  investigate  as  to  the
  cause  of  such  complaint.  When such complaint is made, the commission
  may, by its agents, examiners and inspectors, inspect the works, system,
  plant,  devices,  appliances  and  methods  used  by  such   water-works
  corporation in supplying and distributing such water, and may examine or
  cause   to  be  examined  the  books  and  papers  of  such  water-works
  corporation pertaining to the supplying and distributing of such  water.
  The  form  and  contents  of complaints made as provided in this section
  shall be prescribed by the commission. Such complaints shall  be  signed
  by  the  officers, or by the customers, purchasers or subscribers making
  them, who must add to their signatures their  places  of  residence,  by
  street and number, if any.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4-B - Provisions Relating to Water › 89-L - Municipal Water Systems.

§ 89-l. Municipal  water systems. 1. For the purposes of this section,
  and for the purposes of any jurisdiction conferred by it upon the public
  service commission, a municipality  is  one  which  owns,  maintains  or
  operates,  or  proposes  to own, maintain or operate, a water system, or
  which sells, furnishes or distributes, or proposes to sell,  furnish  or
  distribute,  water  for  domestic,  commercial  or  public uses, whether
  provided by its own system or the system of a water-works corporation or
  another municipality. As so limited, the  term  "municipality"  for  the
  purposes  of  this  section,  means  a  city,  town,  village  or public
  district; and a "public district," as here used, is a district or  other
  territorial  division,  whether  incorporated  or not, whose affairs are
  managed by any officer or officers, person or persons, elected by voters
  or taxpayers or appointed by a public officer or officers, and includes,
  without excluding others, a water district, water supply district and  a
  fire  district.  The other provisions of this chapter shall not apply to
  such a municipality, nor to its said business of owning, maintaining  or
  operating  a  water  system  or  of  selling, furnishing or distributing
  water, except such provisions as are applied by this section by  express
  reference.  The  jurisdiction  of  the  public  service commission, with
  respect to such a municipality or its said business, is that,  and  only
  that, provided for in this section.
2.   Each  such  municipality  shall  file  with  the  public  service
  commission a copy of the  annual  report  of  its  division,  bureau  or
  department of water.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4-B - Provisions Relating to Water › 89-N - Defense in Case of Excessive Charges for Water.

§ 89-n. Defense  in  case  of  excessive charges for water.   If it be
  alleged and established in an  action  brought  in  any  court  for  the
  collection  of  any  charge  for water that a price has been demanded in
  excess of that fixed by the commission or by statute in the municipality
  wherein the action arose, no recovery shall be had therein, but the fact
  that such excessive charges have been made shall be a  complete  defense
  to such action.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4-B - Provisions Relating to Water › 89-O - Powers of Local Officers.

§ 89-o. Powers  of local officers.  If in any city having a population
  of fifty thousand or more there now exists or shall hereafter be created
  a board, body or officer having jurisdiction of  matters  pertaining  to
  water  supply  such  board,  body or officer shall have and may exercise
  such power, jurisdiction and authority in  enforcing  the  laws  of  the
  state  and the orders, rules and regulations of the commission as may be
  prescribed by statute or by the commission.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4-B - Provisions Relating to Water › 89-P - Powers of the Department.

§ 89-p. Powers  of  the department. The department shall, with respect
  to out of state  water-works  corporations  which  are  affiliated  with
  in-state  water-works  corporations  and  which  provide  water  to such
  in-state corporations for eventual retail to New  York  consumers,  keep
  apprised of, attend and monitor, and, where possible, formally intervene
  in  rate  cases  brought  by  such  out of state corporations before the
  appropriate regulatory agency of such other state. The commission  shall
  consider  and  utilize  information  secured  therefrom  in  determining
  whether rate increases sought by such affiliated  in-state  corporations
  are in the public interest.