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2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 5 - Provisions Relating to Telegraph and Telephone Lines and to Telephone and Telegraph Corporations › 90 - Application of Article.

§ 90. Application of article.  1. The provisions of this article shall
apply  to  communication by telegraph or telephone between one point and
another within the state of New York and to every telegraph  corporation
and telephone corporation.
2.  Application  of  the  provisions  of  this  article to telegraphic
communication is suspended unless the commission,  no  sooner  than  one
year  after the effective date of this provision, makes a determination,
after notice and hearing, that regulation of a telegraph corporation  or
some  of  its  services  should  be  reinstituted  to  the  extent found
necessary to protect the public interest because of a lack of  effective
competition.
3.  (1)  Except  as  otherwise provided in this subdivision or section
ninety-two-c of this article, a reseller of telephone service  by  means
of  a customer owned or leased currency operated telephone (COCOT) shall
be exempt from the requirements of this chapter.
(2) The commission shall have power to establish by rule or regulation
service, rate, interconnection and location requirements for COCOTs upon
a determination that such requirements are in the public interest.
(3) (a) The commission shall have power to assess  a  penalty  not  to
exceed  one  thousand dollars against any reseller of COCOT services who
knowingly fails or  neglects  to  comply  with  any  provision  of  this
subdivision or section ninety-two-c of this article or any regulation or
order of the commission implementing or enforcing the provisions of this
subdivision  or  the  provisions of section ninety-two-c of this article
which apply to COCOT service providers. In  the  case  of  a  continuing
violation, each day shall be deemed a separate and distinct offense.
(b)  Whenever the commission shall be of the opinion that any reseller
of COCOT services is violating or about to violate any provision of this
subdivision or any regulation or order of the commission implementing or
enforcing the provisions of this subdivision, or has failed to  pay  any
penalty  assessed  pursuant  to  the provisions of this subdivision, the
commission shall have power to bring an action or enforcement proceeding
as provided by section twenty-six of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 5 - Provisions Relating to Telegraph and Telephone Lines and to Telephone and Telegraph Corporations › 91-A - Customer of Record for Telephonic Blocking and Restrictions on the Removal of Telephonic Blocks to Certain Area Codes.

§  91-a.   Customer of record for telephonic blocking and restrictions
  on the removal of telephonic blocks to certain area codes. Where  access
  to  telephone  numbers in the 800 and/or 900 area codes has been blocked
  at the request of the customer of record to prevent  the  completion  of
  the  call  to  numbers  in  such  area codes, the customer of record may
  provide a personal password to be retained in the customer's record  for
  purposes  of  preventing  the  unauthorized  removal  of the request for
  blocking. No telephone corporation shall remove  such  telephonic  block
  except  pursuant  to  the  customer  of  record  providing  the  correct
  password, or a request of the customer of record made in writing  or  in
  person to such telephone corporation.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 5 - Provisions Relating to Telegraph and Telephone Lines and to Telephone and Telegraph Corporations › 92-A - Special Telephone Equipment for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons.

* §  92-a.  Special  telephone  equipment for deaf and hard of hearing
persons.  1.  The  commission  shall  require  any  regulated   landline
telephone  corporation providing local exchange service to sell or lease
special telecommunication equipment to a person  certified  as  deaf  or
hard  of  hearing  where  the addition of such equipment is necessary to
enable such person to access and utilize the local exchange network. The
sale of such equipment shall be at an amount not to  exceed  the  actual
purchase  price by the corporation and the lease of such equipment shall
be at a rate to be determined by the commission. Any person  who  leases
such equipment shall be permitted to apply the lease payments toward the
equipment's purchase.
2.  The  commission  shall authorize the establishment of the New York
telecommunications relay service center. In  developing  a  request  for
proposals  to  provide  telecommunications  relay service the commission
shall include the following minimum provisions:
(a) The New York telecommunications  relay  service  center  shall  be
located within the municipality of Syracuse, New York;
(b)   A   minimum   of   eighty   percent   of   all  calls  utilizing
telecommunications relay service must be routed to and through  the  New
York telecommunications relay service center; and
(c)  A  contract  to provide telecommunications relay service shall be
renewable for up to five years, and the commission shall be empowered to
promulgate and adopt all regulations required to implement the terms  of
this subdivision.
* NB Effective until June 30, 2027
* § 92-a. Special  telephone  equipment  for  deaf and hard of hearing
persons. The commission shall require any regulated  landline  telephone
corporation  providing  local  exchange service to sell or lease special
telecommunication equipment to a person certified as  deaf  or  hard  of
hearing where the addition of such equipment is necessary to enable such
person  to  access  and  utilize the local exchange network. The sale of
such equipment shall be at an amount not to exceed the  actual  purchase
price  by  the corporation and the lease of such equipment shall be at a
rate to be determined by the commission.  Any  person  who  leases  such
equipment  shall  be  permitted  to  apply the lease payments toward the
equipment's purchase.
* NB Effective June 30, 2027
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 5 - Provisions Relating to Telegraph and Telephone Lines and to Telephone and Telegraph Corporations › 92-B - Telephone Deposits and Payment Plans for the Elderly.

§ 92-b. Telephone  deposits and payment plans for the elderly. 1.  The
  commission shall  require  all  telephone  corporations  to  exempt  the
  dwelling units of all subscribing individuals who are sixty-two years of
  age  or  older  from  any  cash  deposit  requirement  except  where the
  corporation can show that the subscriber is a bad credit risk  according
  to standards set by the commission.
2.  The  commission  shall require all telephone corporations to 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 telephone service rendered by such corporations, provided
  that such customer's average annual billing is not more than one hundred
  fifty  dollars.  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 5 - Provisions Relating to Telegraph and Telephone Lines and to Telephone and Telegraph Corporations › 92-D - Telephone Solicitations.

§ 92-d. Telephone solicitations. Each local exchange telephone company
  shall  inform its customers of the provisions of section ninety-two-i of
  this  article,  sections  three  hundred  ninety-nine-p,  three  hundred
  ninety-nine-z  and  three hundred ninety-nine-pp of the general business
  law, and article ten-B of the personal property law, as such  provisions
  relate   to   the   rights   of  consumers  with  respect  to  cramming,
  telemarketers,  sellers,  the  no  telemarketing  sales  call  statewide
  registry and automatic dialing-announcing devices, by means of:
1.  Inserting  a notice annually in the customers' billing statements;
  and
2. Publishing a notice in local telephone directories.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 5 - Provisions Relating to Telegraph and Telephone Lines and to Telephone and Telegraph Corporations › 92-G - De-Tariffing of Non-Basic Retail Services.

§  92-g. De-tariffing of non-basic retail services. 1. Notwithstanding
  any other provision of this chapter, or any regulation or  order  issued
  by  the  commission  pursuant  to this chapter, and excluding "regulated
  basic services" as defined  in  paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  two  of
  section  ninety-two  of  this article on and after the effective date of
  this section, a telephone corporation furnishing any services that would
  otherwise be subject  to  the  rate  schedule  requirements  in  section
  ninety-two  of this article may post on its website the rates, terms and
  conditions of any retail service it offers, renders or furnishes  within
  the  state.  Section  ninety-two  of this article shall not apply to any
  service so posted, and such telephone corporation shall not be  required
  to file with the commission or obtain approval of any tariff or schedule
  for  such  service. Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect
  the authority of the  commission  under  section  ninety-seven  of  this
  article.
2.  Any  tariff  or  schedule for retail services filed by a telephone
  corporation prior to the effective date of this section may be withdrawn
  at any time after such date upon thirty days notice to  the  commission,
  but shall remain in effect until such withdrawal.
3.  Nothing  in  this  section  shall  affect  the  authority  of  the
  commission over switched access or wholesale services.
4. A telephone corporation shall annually file a copy of the  customer
  service  guide  or  other  listing  of  terms  and  conditions  with the
  commission. A  telephone  corporation  shall  provide  a  copy  of  such
  customer  service  guide or other listing of terms and conditions to any
  requesting person. The commission may order additional  requirements  as
  they  see fit for the customer service guide. The term "customer service
  guide" and "other listing of terms and conditions"  when  used  in  this
  section shall include but not be limited to a list of non-basic services
  with  a  description  and  rate  of sale of such services by a telephone
  corporation.
5. At least thirty days prior to an increase in rate for  a  non-basic
  service,  a  telephone corporation shall notify any affected person that
  such person may opt out of such non-basic service at any time within the
  thirty days prior to the increase becoming effective.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 5 - Provisions Relating to Telegraph and Telephone Lines and to Telephone and Telegraph Corporations › 92-H - Participation in the Targeted Accessibility Fund.

§  92-h.  Participation in the targeted accessibility fund. 1. As used
  in this section, the term "fund" shall mean the  targeted  accessibility
  fund  established by the commission for the purpose, among other things,
  of providing financial support for the provision of lifeline service  in
  the state.
2.  Notwithstanding  any other provision of this chapter, any provider
  or reseller of commercial mobile radio service, as defined in 47  C.F.R.
  §   20.3,   in   the   state   that   is   designated   as  an  eligible
  telecommunications carrier pursuant to  47  U.S.C.  §  214(e)  to  offer
  lifeline  service  in  the  state  may,  but  shall  not be required to,
  participate in the fund for the purpose of offering lifeline service. If
  such a provider elects to participate in the fund,  the  provider  shall
  assume  all  rights  and  obligations associated with such participation
  under the commission's orders, on the same basis as other  participants.
  Any  such  provider  that  has  elected  to  participate in the fund may
  withdraw from such participation at any time.
3. Except to the extent necessary to supervise or administer the fund,
  nothing in this section shall confer upon the commission any  regulatory
  jurisdiction  over  providers  or  resellers  of commercial mobile radio
  service that elect to participate in the fund.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 5 - Provisions Relating to Telegraph and Telephone Lines and to Telephone and Telegraph Corporations › 92-I - Cramming Prohibited.

§  92-i.  Cramming  prohibited.  1.  For the purposes of this section,
"cramming" means the inclusion and imposition of charges on the  invoice
or  bill  of a customer from a telephone corporation at the request of a
third party or billing aggregator that (a) were not  authorized  by  the
customer,  or  (b)  if  authorized,  were obtained through misleading or
deceptive means.
2. A customer shall not be liable for charges appearing on the invoice
or bill of a telephone corporation that are the result of  cramming.  No
charges  for  any products or services, other than those provided by the
telephone corporation, its affiliates, a third party video provider with
whom a telephone corporation or its affiliate jointly  market  services,
or  otherwise permitted by law, shall be included on any bill or invoice
of a customer, unless the third party requesting  the  payment  of  such
charges retains and provides upon request valid proof that:
(a) the customer was provided with clear and conspicuous disclosure of
all  material  terms  and  conditions  of  the  product or service being
offered, including but not limited to all initial and recurring  charges
and  the fact that such charges shall appear on the customer's telephone
bill;
(b) after receiving clear and conspicuous disclosure  as  provided  in
paragraph  (a) of this subdivision, the customer explicitly consented to
the nature and amount of such charges; and
(c) the third party offering the product or service  or  an  agent  of
such third party provided the customer with a toll-free telephone number
the  customer may call and an address to which the customer may write to
resolve any billing dispute.
3. Any charges for third party products or services that are  included
on  a  bill or invoice by a telephone corporation without the consent of
the customer having been obtained as provided in subdivision two of this
section shall be void and unenforceable, and shall be removed  from  the
bill or invoice upon notice from such customer.
4.  The  commission  shall  supervise  and  ensure compliance with the
provisions of this section, and may promulgate any rules and regulations
it deems necessary or desirable to ensure such compliance, including but
not limited to any additional requirements for verification of  customer
orders  and  any  additional standards that third parties or agents must
meet to be authorized  to  receive  payment  through  the  inclusion  of
charges on bills or invoices of telephone corporations. Any failure by a
telephone  corporation to comply with the provisions of this section may
be redressed as provided in subdivision three of section  ninety-six  of
this article or as otherwise authorized by law.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 5 - Provisions Relating to Telegraph and Telephone Lines and to Telephone and Telegraph Corporations › 93 - Liability for Loss or Damage Caused by Violation of This Chapter.

§ 93. Liability  for  loss  or  damage  caused  by  violation  of this
  chapter.  In case any telegraph  corporation  or  telephone  corporation
  shall  do  or  cause  to be done or permit to be done any act, matter or
  thing prohibited, forbidden or declared to be unlawful, or shall omit to
  do any act, matter or other thing required to be done, either by law  of
  the state of New York by this chapter or by any order of the commission,
  such  telegraph  corporation or telephone corporation shall be liable to
  the person or corporation affected  thereby  for  all  loss,  damage  or
  injury  caused thereby or resulting therefrom and in case of recovery if
  the court shall find that such act or omission was willful it may in its
  discretion fix a reasonable counsel or attorney's fee, which  fee  shall
  be  taxed  and collected as a part of the costs in the action. An action
  to recover for such loss, damage or injury may be brought in  any  court
  of competent jurisdiction by any such person or corporation.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 5 - Provisions Relating to Telegraph and Telephone Lines and to Telephone and Telegraph Corporations › 94 - General Powers and Duties of Commission in Respect to Telegraph Corporations and Telephone Corporations.

§ 94. General  powers and duties of commission in respect to telegraph
  corporations and telephone corporations.  1.  The  commission  and  each
  commissioner  shall  have power and authority to administer oaths in all
  parts of the state to witnesses summoned  to  testify  in  any  inquiry,
  investigation, hearing or proceeding and also to administer oaths in all
  parts  of  the state whenever the exercise of such power is incidentally
  necessary or proper to  enable  the  commission  or  a  commissioner  to
  perform a duty or to exercise a power.
2.  The  commission  shall  have  general supervision of all telegraph
  corporations, telephone corporations and telegraph lines  and  telephone
  lines  within  its  jurisdiction  as hereinbefore defined and shall have
  power to and shall examine the  same  and  keep  informed  as  to  their
  general condition, their capitalization, their franchises and the manner
  in  which  their  lines  and  property  are leased, operated or managed,
  conducted and operated with respect to the adequacy of and accommodation
  afforded by their service and  also  with  respect  to  the  safety  and
  security  of  their  lines  and  property,  and  with  respect  to their
  compliance with  all  provisions  of  law,  orders  of  the  commission,
  franchises  and  charter  requirements.  The commission shall have power
  either through its members or inspectors or employees duly authorized by
  it to  enter  in  or  upon  and  to  inspect  the  property,  equipment,
  buildings,  plants, factories, offices, apparatus, machines, devices and
  lines of any telegraph corporation or telephone corporation.
3. The commission and each commissioner shall have  power  to  examine
  all  books,  contracts,  records,  documents and papers of any telegraph
  corporation or telephone corporation and  by  subpoena  duces  tecum  to
  compel the production thereof, or of duly verified copies of the same or
  of any of them.
4.  The  commission  shall require, with respect to any charge for the
  installation or initiation of service of a residential  telephone  line,
  or  any  nonrecurring  maintenance  service  charge  with  respect  to a
  residential telephone line or equipment, that any telephone  corporation
  imposing  such a charge offer a plan for the deferred payment thereof in
  installments over a period of up to one year. For the purposes  of  this
  subdivision,  charges  for  initiation  of  service  are charges for the
  connection of service including but not limited to charges  for  central
  office  line,  premises  visit,  inside  wire and jacks, and any related
  service.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 5 - Provisions Relating to Telegraph and Telephone Lines and to Telephone and Telegraph Corporations › 95-A - Statements of Nature and Extent of Interests to Be Filed Upon Request.

§ 95-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 5 - Provisions Relating to Telegraph and Telephone Lines and to Telephone and Telegraph Corporations › 98 - Power of Commission to Order Repairs or Changes.

§ 98. Power  of  commission to order repairs or changes.  Whenever the
  commission shall be of opinion, after a hearing had upon its own motion,
  or upon a complaint, that repairs or improvements to or changes  in  any
  telegraph  line  or  any  telephone line ought reasonably to be made, or
  that any additions should  reasonably  be  made  thereto,  in  order  to
  promote  the  convenience  of  the  public  or employees, or in order to
  secure adequate service or  facilities  for  telegraphic  or  telephonic
  communications,  the  commission shall make and serve an order directing
  that such repairs, improvements, changes or additions be made  within  a
  reasonable  time  and  in  a  manner  to  be specified therein and every
  telegraph corporation and telephone corporation is hereby  required  and
  directed  to  make  all  repairs,  improvements,  changes  and additions
  required of it by any order of the commission served upon it.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 5 - Provisions Relating to Telegraph and Telephone Lines and to Telephone and Telegraph Corporations › 99 - Franchises and Privileges.

§  99.  Franchises  and  privileges.  1.   No telegraph corporation or
  telephone corporation hereafter formed shall begin construction  of  its
  telegraph  line  or  telephone  line  without  first having obtained the
  permission and approval of the commission and its certificate of  public
  convenience  and  necessity  and  the  required  consent  of  the proper
  municipal  authorities.    Notwithstanding  the  foregoing,   any   such
  certificate  shall be deemed to be granted by the commission ninety days
  after such corporation applies to  the  commission  for  a  certificate,
  unless  the  commission,  or its designee, determines within such ninety
  day period that the public interest requires the commission's review and
  its written order.
2.  No franchise nor any right to or under any  franchise  to  own  or
  operate   a   telegraph  line  or  telephone  line  shall  be  assigned,
  transferred or leased, nor shall any  contract  or  agreement  hereafter
  made with reference to or affecting any such franchise or right be valid
  or  of  any force or effect whatsoever, unless the assignment, transfer,
  lease, contract or agreement shall have been approved by the commission.
  No telephone corporation shall transfer or lease its works or system  or
  any  part  of such works or system to any other person or corporation or
  contract for the operation of its works or system, without  the  written
  consent  of  the  commission.  Notwithstanding  the  foregoing, any such
  transfer or lease between affiliated corporations with an original  cost
  of  (a)  less  than one hundred thousand dollars proposed by a telephone
  corporation having annual  gross  revenues  in  excess  of  two  hundred
  million  dollars, (b) less than twenty-five thousand dollars proposed by
  a telephone corporation having annual gross revenues of  less  than  two
  hundred  million  but more than ten million dollars or (c) less than ten
  thousand dollars proposed by a telephone corporation having annual gross
  revenues of less than ten million dollars  and  any  other  transfer  or
  lease  between  non-affiliates  regardless  of  cost  shall be effective
  without the commission's written consent within ninety days  after  such
  corporation  notifies  the  commission  that  it  plans to complete such
  transfer or lease and submits a description of the  transfer  or  lease,
  unless  the  commission,  or its designee, determines within such ninety
  days that the public  interest  requires  the  commission's  review  and
  written consent.
3. The approval of the commission to the exercise of a franchise or to
  the  assignment, transfer or lease of a franchise shall not be construed
  to revive or validate any lapsed or invalid franchise or to  enlarge  or
  add to the powers and privileges contained in the grant of any franchise
  or to waive any forfeiture.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 5 - Provisions Relating to Telegraph and Telephone Lines and to Telephone and Telegraph Corporations › 101-A - Reorganization.

§ 101-a. Reorganization.  1. Reorganization of telegraph and telephone
  corporations  pursuant  to  sections  ninety-six and ninety-seven of the
  stock corporation law and such other laws 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 5 - Provisions Relating to Telegraph and Telephone Lines and to Telephone and Telegraph Corporations › 102 - Intralata Presubscribed Interexchange Carrier-Change Charge Study.

§  102.  IntraLATA  presubscribed  interexchange carrier-change charge
study. 1. As  used  in  this  section,  the  following  terms  have  the
following meanings:
(a) "Provider of telephone service" means a telephone corporation that
provides  intraLATA  or  local  exchange  telephone  service  to end-use
customers.
(b) "Customer change of use  charges"  means  intraLATA  presubscribed
interexchange  carrier-change  charges, that any provider of residential
or single-line business telephone service levies upon the  customer  for
the  customer's  change in intraLATA presubscribed interexchange carrier
service or complete termination of that service.
(c) "Customer local calling plan" means any residential or single-line
business telephone plan,  exclusively  for  the  purpose  of  completing
regional  intraLATA  calls,  offered  by  any  telegraph  corporation or
telephone corporation, subject to section ninety of this article.
2. The commission shall conduct a study to analyze  trends  associated
with  customer  change of use charges related to changes of a customer's
local calling plan and determine the extent to which these changes  take
place  and  the  actual cost for a provider of telephone service to make
all the necessary changes  associated  with  such  a  change.  From  its
findings,  the  commission shall publish a report regarding the activity
related to changes in local calling plans and the costs associated  with
the  changes  of  such  plans.  The  report must be published within one
hundred twenty 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  chairperson  of  the  senate  standing
committee on energy and telecommunications, and the chairperson  of  the
assembly   standing   committee   on   corporations,   authorities   and
commissions.
3. In cases where the customer's calling plan was altered  by,  or  on
behalf  of, a telegraph corporation and/or telephone corporation subject
to section ninety of this article, other than the customer's provider of
telephone service, the telegraph corporation  or  telephone  corporation
shall  pay  the  customer  change  of  use  charges  to  the provider of
telephone service.
4. The commission shall  notify  customers  of  its  findings  on  its
official world wide web website.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 5 - Provisions Relating to Telegraph and Telephone Lines and to Telephone and Telegraph Corporations › 103 - Commercial Landlord-Tenant Relationship.

§  103.  Commercial  landlord-tenant relationship. 1. No landlord of a
commercial  property  shall  (a)  interfere  with  the  installation  of
telephone  corporation facilities upon such property or premises, except
that a landlord of a commercial property may require:
(1) that the installation of telephone corporation facilities  conform
to  such  reasonable  conditions as are necessary to protect the safety,
functioning and appearance of the  premises,  and  the  convenience  and
well-being of other tenants;
(2)  that  the  telephone  corporation  bear  the  entire  cost of the
installation, operation or removal of such facilities; and
(3) that the telephone corporation agree to indemnify the landlord  of
the  commercial  property  for  any  damage  caused by the installation,
operation or removal of such facilities;
(b) demand or accept payment from any commercial tenant, in any  form,
in  exchange  for permitting telephone corporation services on or within
such commercial property or premises, or from any telephone  corporation
in exchange therefor in excess of any amount which the commission shall,
by regulation, determine to be reasonable; or
(c)  discriminate  in  rental charges or otherwise, between commercial
tenants who receive telephone corporation services and those who do not.
2. No telephone corporation may enter  into  any  agreement  with  the
owners,  lessees or persons controlling or managing commercial buildings
served by a telephone corporation, or do or permit any act,  that  would
have  the  effect,  directly or indirectly of diminishing or interfering
with existing rights of any tenant or other occupant of such building to
use or avail himself or herself of telecommunications services.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 5 - Provisions Relating to Telegraph and Telephone Lines and to Telephone and Telegraph Corporations › 104 - Fiber-Based Services.

§  104.  Fiber-based services. 1. Where a telephone line, as such term
  is defined in subdivision eighteen of section two of this chapter, or  a
  portion  of  a telephone line, has previously been placed by a telephone
  corporation in or on a building or other property of an owner other than
  the telephone corporation and remains in place in or on such building or
  other property, the telephone corporation may,  without  any  additional
  compensation  to the owner, replace or supplement the line or portion of
  such line with fiber optic facilities  for  purposes  of  providing  any
  telephone,  broadband,  cable  or other video service that the telephone
  corporation or its affiliate may lawfully  provide,  provided  that  the
  provision  of  such  services over those facilities does not result in a
  significant increase in the physical size of the  facilities  placed  at
  those locations.
2. If the owner would be entitled to compensation for such replacement
  under existing law, the owner of the property may seek such compensation
  under the mechanism and pursuant to the substantive and procedural rules
  utilized  by the public service commission for resolving claims for just
  compensation under section two hundred twenty-eight of this chapter, but
  the pendency of such proceedings shall  not  affect  the  right  of  the
  telephone  company to make the replacement or supplementation authorized
  by this section.
3. A landlord or property owner may require: (a)  that  the  telephone
  corporation  or the tenant or a combination thereof bear the entire cost
  of the installation, operation or removal of such facilities;  (b)  that
  the  telephone  corporation agrees to indemnify the landlord or property
  owner for any damage caused by the installation, operation or removal of
  such facilities; and (c)  that  the  installation  of  the  fiber  optic
  facilities  conform  to  such  reasonable conditions as are necessary to
  protect the safety, functioning and appearance of the premises, and  the
  convenience and well-being of other tenants.
4. No landlord shall: (a) demand or accept payment from any tenant, in
  any  form,  in  exchange for permitting fiber optic service on or within
  such landlord's property or premises;  or  (b)  discriminate  in  rental
  charges  or  otherwise,  between tenants who receive fiber optic service
  and those who do not.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 5 - Provisions Relating to Telegraph and Telephone Lines and to Telephone and Telegraph Corporations › 104-A - Notice to Customers on Fiber Optic-Based Telephone Lines.

§  104-a. Notice to customers on fiber optic-based telephone lines. 1.
  The commission shall require each telephone  corporation  that  provides
  local  exchange  service  to  provide a notice containing information to
  customers on the differences between copper-based  telephone  lines  and
  fiber   optic-based   telephone  lines  prior  to  when  such  telephone
  corporation initiates a change in such customer's telephone service from
  copper-based telephone  lines  to  fiber  optic-based  telephone  lines.
  Except  (i)  in  cases  of  an  emergency,  including but not limited to
  restoration or repair of service,  or  (ii)  upon  the  request  of  the
  customer,  such  notice  shall  be  provided  to  the  customer at least
  forty-five days before such telephone corporation initiates a change  in
  such  customer's  telephone service from copper-based telephone lines to
  fiber optic-based telephone lines. Such notice shall include, but not be
  limited to the following:  a  description  of  the  differences  between
  copper-based  telephone lines and fiber optic-based telephone lines; the
  differences between  the  effect  a  power  outage  would  have  on  the
  telephone   service  provided  by  copper-based  and  fiber  optic-based
  telephone lines, including the availability of battery back-up  options;
  an  explanation  of whether the service will continue to be regulated by
  the commission; and a phone number and contact information for customers
  who seek additional information or wish  to  make  a  complaint  to  the
  commission.
2.  The  commission  shall  have  the  power to prescribe the form and
  content  of  the  notice  established  pursuant  to  this  section.  The
  commission  may  from  time  to time prescribe, by order, changes in the
  notice thereof.  The commission shall also have power to establish rules
  and regulations for such notice and may from time  to  time  modify  the
  same.
3.  Every  telephone  corporation  shall  file with the commission the
  notice established pursuant to this section and obtain  approval  as  to
  the  form  and  content  thereof  prior  to  providing  such  notice  to
  customers.   Notwithstanding the foregoing, any  such  notice  shall  be
  deemed  to  be  approved  by  the  commission  ninety  days  after  such
  corporation  applies  to  the  commission  for  approval,   unless   the
  commission,  or  its  designee, rejects the notice and requires specific
  changes within such ninety day period. Upon a  material  change  to  the
  form  and  content  of an approved notice, a telephone corporation shall
  again file with the commission such notice and obtain approval  pursuant
  to  this  section.  The commission may establish what shall constitute a
  material change to the  form  and  content  of  the  notice  that  would
  necessitate commission approval.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 6 - Provisions Affecting Two or More Kinds of the Public Service and the Persons and Corporations Furnishing Such Service › 105 - Purposes of Article.

§ 105. Purposes  of  article.    This  article  prescribes  additional
  provisions affecting two or more kinds of the public  service  regulated
  by  this  chapter  and affecting the persons and corporations furnishing
  such service.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 6 - Provisions Affecting Two or More Kinds of the Public Service and the Persons and Corporations Furnishing Such Service › 106 - Approval of Loans.

§ 106. Approval of loans.  Except with the consent and approval of the
  public  service  commission  first  had  and obtained, no public utility
  shall  loan  moneys,  stocks,  bonds,  notes  or  other   evidences   of
  indebtedness,  to  any corporation, company, association, partnership or
  individual, owning or holding, directly or indirectly, any stock of said
  public utility.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 6 - Provisions Affecting Two or More Kinds of the Public Service and the Persons and Corporations Furnishing Such Service › 107 - Approval of the Use of Revenues.

§ 107. Approval of the use of revenues. 1. Except with the consent and
  approval  of  the  commission  first had and obtained, no public utility
  shall use revenues received from the rendition of public service  within
  the  state  for  any  purpose  other than its operating, maintenance and
  depreciation  expenses,  the  construction,  extension,  improvement  or
  maintenance   of   its  facilities  and  service,  the  payment  of  its
  indebtedness and interest thereon, and the payment of dividends  to  its
  stockholders.
2.  Notwithstanding  subdivision one of this section, such consent and
  approval requested by a telephone corporation shall be deemed granted by
  the  commission  ninety  days  after  the  corporation  applies  to  the
  commission  for such consent and approval, unless the commission, or its
  designee, determines within such  ninety  day  period  that  the  public
  interest requires the commission's review and written consent.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 6 - Provisions Affecting Two or More Kinds of the Public Service and the Persons and Corporations Furnishing Such Service › 108 - Approval of Dissolution and of Certificates of Merger or Consolidation, Certificates of Amendment of Certificates of Incorporation, and Restated Certi

§ 108. Approval  of  dissolution  and  of  certificates  of  merger or
  consolidation,   certificates   of   amendment   of   certificates    of
  incorporation,  and  restated  certificates  of  incorporation of public
  utility corporations.  1. No public utility corporation shall deliver to
  the department of state for filing, nor shall the  department  of  state
  file,   a  certificate  of  dissolution,  a  certificate  of  merger  or
  consolidation, or  a  certificate  of  amendment  of  a  certificate  of
  incorporation   under   section  eight  hundred  five  of  the  business
  corporation law or a restated certificate of incorporation under section
  eight hundred seven of the business  corporation  law  which  makes  any
  amendment specified in subparagraphs eight, nine, ten, eleven and twelve
  of   paragraph  (b)  of  section  eight  hundred  one  of  the  business
  corporation law, unless such certificate shall have endorsed thereon the
  consent and approval of the commission.
2. No public utility corporation shall be dissolved  pursuant  to  the
  provisions  of  article eleven of the business corporation law until the
  commission shall have first approved such dissolution.
3. The provisions of this section shall not apply to a public  utility
  corporation  subject  to regulation by the commission only as a contract
  carrier of  passengers  by  motor  vehicle,  nor  to  a  certificate  of
  amendment  or  restated certificate of incorporation of a public utility
  corporation subject to regulation by the  commission  only  as  a  motor
  carrier of property.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 6 - Provisions Affecting Two or More Kinds of the Public Service and the Persons and Corporations Furnishing Such Service › 109 - Appearances of Municipal Corporations.

§ 109. Appearances   of   municipal   corporations.   Each   municipal
  corporation shall have the  right  to  appear  as  a  party  before  the
  commission  or  before  any  court in any action or proceeding involving
  rates, service or other matters affecting the municipal  corporation  or
  any  of its residents. Any city, village, county or town may appropriate
  and expend such an amount as the governing body of such municipality may
  determine to be necessary for the purpose of paying the expenses of  the
  employment  of  expert  and  technical advisors, engineers, accountants,
  appraisers, attorneys, and other persons in connection with  any  matter
  to  be presented to the commission in any action or proceeding involving
  electric, gas and water rates, service or other matters to which it is a
  party.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 6 - Provisions Affecting Two or More Kinds of the Public Service and the Persons and Corporations Furnishing Such Service › 111-A - Additional Information in Annual Reports; Disclosure of Compensation.

§  111-a.  Additional  information  in  annual  reports; disclosure of
  compensation. 1. Every  gas  corporation,  electric  corporation,  steam
  corporation,  and  water-works  corporation whose rates are regulated by
  the commission, and having a gross annual operating revenue of more than
  one million dollars shall prepare and include in its annual report filed
  with the department a compensation statement showing for  the  preceding
  calendar year:
a.  the  names,  titles,  and  duties  of  all  executive officers and
  directors and the compensation received by each such  executive  officer
  and director; and
b.   the   estimated  proportion  of  the  compensation  disclosed  in
  accordance with this subdivision, that is paid, directly or  indirectly,
  by   the   ratepayers  to  the  extent  such  proportion  is  reasonably
  calculable.
2. For purposes of this section:
a. "Compensation" means salary, deferred compensation, incentive  pay,
  stock options, life insurance premiums and any change in actuarial value
  of accumulated pension benefits for the reporting period.
b.  "Executive officer" means the president, secretary, treasurer, and
  vice president in charge of  a  principal  business  unit,  division  or
  function  of  such  gas  corporation,  electric corporation, water-works
  corporation or steam corporation, and any  other  officer  who  performs
  similar  policy-making  functions  for  such  gas  corporation, electric
  corporation, water-works  corporation,  or  steam  corporation  and  who
  receives  compensation  at the rate of one hundred seventy-five thousand
  dollars or more per annum.
3. The compensation statement for each such gas corporation,  electric
  corporation, steam corporation and water-works corporation shall be made
  publicly  available  on  the  department's website not later than thirty
  days after the date of the filing  of  the  annual  report  required  by
  subdivision   one   of   this  section.  The  department  shall  post  a
  compensation statement for the Long  Island  power  authority's  service
  provider  containing  the  information listed in subdivision one of this
  section annually on or before May first of each year. The department  is
  authorized  to  request  and  collect any information necessary from the
  service provider to comply with the requirements of this subdivision.
2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 6 - Provisions Affecting Two or More Kinds of the Public Service and the Persons and Corporations Furnishing Such Service › 112-A - Appointment of Temporary Operator.

§  112-a.  Appointment  of  temporary operator. (a) The commission may
appoint a temporary operator of a gas corporation with  twenty  thousand
or fewer customers or water-works corporation with one thousand or fewer
customers  if  the  commission,  after  notice  and an opportunity to be
heard, makes a determination that such gas  corporation  or  water-works
corporation exhibits one or more of the following criteria:
(i) a failure to provide safe, adequate, or reliable service;
(ii) a lack of technical, financial, or managerial capacity or ability
to provide the service; or
(iii)  actual  or  effective  abandonment  of  any  service or portion
thereof.
(b) In making a determination under this section, the  commission  may
take into consideration:
(i)  the  financial,  managerial,  and  technical  ability  of the gas
corporation or water-works corporation;
(ii) the financial, managerial, and technical ability  of  persons  or
entities providing the same type of service;
(iii) expenditures necessary to make improvements to assure compliance
with applicable statutory and regulatory standards; and
(iv) any other matter that the commission deems relevant.
(c)  For  the  purposes  of this section, a "temporary operator" shall
mean any person or entity that:
(i)  is  not  an  affiliated  interest  of  the  gas  corporation   or
water-works corporation;
(ii)  agrees to operate the gas corporation or water-works corporation
under the terms and conditions established by the commission; and
(iii)  is  financially,  managerially,  and  technically  capable   of
operating  the  gas corporation or water-works corporation in compliance
with applicable standards.
(d) The gas corporation or  water-works  corporation  shall  have  the
burden  of  demonstrating  that  it  is supplying and has the ability to
continue to supply safe, adequate, and  reliable  service  at  just  and
reasonable rates, or that abandonment of service by its system is in the
public interest.
(e)  The  appointment  of a temporary operator shall be in addition to
any other remedies provided by law.