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New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter D - Rates And Charges › Part 272 - Penalties And Discounts-consumers' Bills-municipal Gas Utilities › Section 272.4 - Contents of rate schedules

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
In case a one-time late payment charge is imposed, the rate
					 schedules shall show the rates for service, the amount due including the late
					 payment charge when the charge becomes applicable, and the period during which
					 the bill may be paid without the imposition of the late payment
					 charge.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter D - Rates And Charges › Part 272 - Penalties And Discounts-consumers' Bills-municipal Gas Utilities › Section 272.5 - Increase in rates prohibited

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
No municipality furnishing gas, electric or steam service
					 shall, without special permission of this commission, so revise or amend its
					 rate schedules, in compliance with this Part, as to increase the rates for
					 service applicable to any customer as compared with the rates now in
					 effect.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter D - Rates And Charges › Part 273 - Bills For Service-gas Corporations › Section 273.2 - Budget or equal payment billing

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
On either the bill or in an addendum attached to or
					 enclosed with the bill shall be shown:
(a) Identification of the type of budget or
				  equal payment plan, if more than one plan is offered.
(b) The total of the year's budget or equal
				  payment amounts billed to the end of the period covered by the current
				  bill.
(c) The dollar amount billed
				  for tariff items during the same period as in subdivision (b) of this
				  section.
(d) Debit or credit
				  balance to be shown as D or C on the bill and defined as follows:
D Amount due company
C Amount in customer favor
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter D - Rates And Charges › Part 273 - Bills For Service-gas Corporations › Section 273.3 - List of company offices

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Each gas company shall provide annually to its customers a
					 list of all company offices at which utility bills may be paid, if such
					 information is not shown on its bill form.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter D - Rates And Charges › Part 274 - Charges For Special Services › Section 274.1 - Charges for special services required to be filed

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Every gas, electric, gas and electric corporation and every
					 municipality providing gas or electric service is hereby directed and required
					 to file amendments to its tariff schedules to be effective not later than
					 November 15, 1948 on not less than 30 days' notice to the public and this
					 commission setting forth the charges that will be made for each and every
					 service performed for a customer or an applicant for service, except service
					 directly connected with the installation of appliances sold by such corporation
					 or municipality or directly connected with jobbing work performed as an agent
					 under an agency contract, whereby the corporation or municipality undertakes to
					 do jobbing work for a stipulated profit or commission provided, however, that
					 corporations or municipalities who now have such charges set forth in their
					 tariff schedules need not refile such provisions.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter D - Rates And Charges › Part 275 - Notices Of Discontinuance And Complaint Procedures › Section 275.1 - Notice of discontinuance-time

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) No gas corporation shall discontinue the
				  supply of gas for nonpayment of bills rendered for service, or for failure to
				  post a required deposit, until:
(1) at least
				  five days after written notice has been served personally upon the person
				  supplied;
(2) at least eight days
				  after mailing written notice in postpaid wrapper to the person supplied,
				  addressed to such person at premises where service is rendered; or
(3) at least five days after the person
				  supplied has either signed for or refused a registered letter containing
				  written notice, addressed to such person at premises where service is
				  rendered.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter D - Rates And Charges › Part 275 - Notices Of Discontinuance And Complaint Procedures › Section 275.2 - Notice of discontinuance-format

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Every notice indicating discontinuance of
				  service shall:
(1) clearly indicate in
				  nontechnical language and, where practicable, in a bilingual format:
(i) the reason for service
				  discontinuance;
(ii) the total
				  amount required to be paid by the customer to avoid discontinuance of service,
				  indicating the amount for which the customer's account is in arrears or the
				  required deposit, if any, which must be posted by the customer, or
				  both;
(iii) a method whereby the
				  customer may tender payment of the full sum due and owing, including any
				  required deposit, to avoid the discontinuance of his service;
(iv) the availability of company procedures
				  to consider customer complaints prior to discontinuance, including the address
				  and phone number of the office of the gas company the customer may contact in
				  reference to his account; and
(v)
				  the earliest date on which discontinuance may be attempted; and
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter D - Rates And Charges › Part 275 - Notices Of Discontinuance And Complaint Procedures › Section 275.3 - No discontinuance without verification of delinquent account

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) No gas
				  corporation shall discontinue service for nonpayment of bills rendered, or for
				  failure to post a required deposit, unless:
(1) it shall have verified that payment has
				  not been received at any office of the company or at any office of an
				  authorized collection agent through the end of the notice period required by
				  this Part; and
(2) it shall have
				  verified on the day disconnection occurs that payment has not been posted to
				  the customer's account as of the opening of business on that day, or shall have
				  complied with procedures established pursuant to section
				  275.4(b) 
				  of this Part.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter D - Rates And Charges › Part 275 - Notices Of Discontinuance And Complaint Procedures › Section 275.4 - Rapid posting of payments in response to notices of discontinuance

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Every gas corporation shall take reasonable steps to
					 establish procedures to insure that any payments made in response to notices of
					 discontinuance, when the customer brings the fact that such a notice has been
					 issued to the attention of the company or its collection agents, shall
					 either:
(a) be posted to the
				  customer's account on the day payment is received; or
(b) be processed in some manner so that
				  discontinuance will not occur.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter D - Rates And Charges › Part 275 - Notices Of Discontinuance And Complaint Procedures › Section 275.5 - Days when discontinuance of service is not permitted

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
No gas corporation shall discontinue service to any person
					 for nonpayment of bills or for failure to post a required deposit on a
					 Saturday, Sunday, public holiday, or day on which the main business office of
					 the company is not open for business. For purposes of this section, the term
					 public holiday refers to those holidays enumerated in the General Construction
					 Law.
(b) No gas or gas and electric or
				  municipal gas corporation shall discontinue gas service to any residential
				  customer for nonpayment of bills or for failure to post a required deposit on a
				  Friday, or the day immediately preceding a day on which the main business
				  office of the company is not scheduled to be open for business, or the day
				  immediately preceding a public holiday. No such corporation shall discontinue
				  service to any residential customer for nonpayment of bills or for failure to
				  post a required deposit during a two-week period encompassing Christmas and New
				  Year's Day.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter D - Rates And Charges › Part 275 - Notices Of Discontinuance And Complaint Procedures › Section 275.6 - No additional notice required when payment by check is subsequently dishonored

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Receipt of a subsequently dishonored negotiable instrument
					 in response to a notice of discontinuance shall not constitute payment of the
					 customer's account, and no gas corporation shall be required to issue
					 additional notice prior to discontinuance.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter D - Rates And Charges › Part 275 - Notices Of Discontinuance And Complaint Procedures › Section 275.9 - Publicizing complaint procedures

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Every gas corporation shall, by a notice
				  accompanying a regular bill or otherwise, advise each of its customers
				  annually, unless otherwise directed by the commission, of the procedures
				  available to the customer to register complaints in regard to service or
				  disputed bills. Such notice shall clearly state the means by which a complaint
				  can be made to the company and shall also advise the customer that, if after
				  contacting the company the customer remains dissatisfied, he may contact the
				  New York State Public Service Commission. Such notice shall further state that
				  the Public Service Commission has a staff available to give assistance in such
				  matters, and shall also specify an appropriate address of the Public Service
				  Commission.
(b) Prior to
				  circulating the notice required by subdivision (a) of this section, each
				  utility shall submit to the commission for its approval the form of such notice
				  and the intended program for its distribution.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter D - Rates And Charges › Part 275 - Notices Of Discontinuance And Complaint Procedures › Section 275.10 - Hardship procedures

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Each and every gas corporation and gas and electric
					 corporation shall file with the commission and make available for public
					 inspection such corporation's detailed procedures for handling hardship
					 situations where consumers are threatened with disconnection of service. The
					 detailed procedures to be filed under this section shall include the special
					 procedures during the cold weather seasons required by sections
					 275.12
					 and
					 275.13 
					 of this Part. Such corporations shall observe their filed procedures in
					 conducting their disconnection activity.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter D - Rates And Charges › Part 275 - Notices Of Discontinuance And Complaint Procedures › Section 275.11 - Reconnection

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) On or before
				  May 31, 1978, all gas corporations and gas and electric corporations shall file
				  with the commission tariff provisions which provide that, except in extreme and
				  unusual circumstances or where a customer requests otherwise, such corporations
				  shall reconnect service; during the months of November, December, January,
				  February and March, to any disconnected residential customer no more than 24
				  hours after any of the following events:
(1)
				  receipt by the gas corporation of the full amount due (to include arrears;
				  reestablishment charges and associated taxes; collection charges and associated
				  taxes; and a security deposit when requested in writing) for which service had
				  been disconnected;
(2) agreement by
				  the gas corporation to a plan by which the residential customer is obliged to
				  satisfy the arrears; or
(3)
				  direction by the commission or chief--Consumer Services Section, Power or Gas
				  Division of the commission staff, or their designees.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter D - Rates And Charges › Part 275 - Notices Of Discontinuance And Complaint Procedures › Section 275.13 - Survey of residential customers previously disconnected for nonpayment or theft of service

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Not earlier than September 1 nor later than November 1 of
					 every year, each gas corporation and gas and electric corporation shall conduct
					 a survey of all former residential customers whose gas/electric service was
					 used for heating the premises or operating a heating system, was terminated for
					 nonpayment, meter or service lateral tampering, or theft of service during the
					 12-month period ending on November 1 of that year, and has not been restored.
					 The purpose of the survey is to determine whether a continued lack of service
					 may expose the former customer or other person residing in the premises to a
					 serious impairment to human health as defined in subdivision (b) of section
					 275.12 
					 of this Part. If the corporation determines that a former residential customer
					 or other person residing in the premises may be exposed to a serious impairment
					 to human health as defined in subdivision (b) of section
					 275.12 
					 of this Part, it shall restore the gas service immediately, unless the customer
					 refuses to permit such corporation to restore service or, in theft or tampering
					 situations, unless it is impractical for the corporation to eliminate an unsafe
					 condition, and the requirements of subdivision (b) of section
					 275.12 
					 of this Part shall apply. If the corporation is unable to obtain personal
					 contact with the customer or an adult residing on the premises, or the customer
					 refuses to permit service restoration, it shall immediately refer the name and
					 address of the former customer to the local commissioner of social services in
					 accordance with the procedures set forth in paragraph (b)(3) of section
					 275.12 
					 of this Part, unless the corporation has reasonable grounds to believe that the
					 former customer has permanently vacated the premises.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter D - Rates And Charges › Part 275 - Notices Of Discontinuance And Complaint Procedures › Section 275.14 - Voluntary third-party notice prior to discontinuance of service

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Each and every
				  gas and gas and electric and municipal gas corporation shall permit a
				  residential consumer to designate a third party to receive a copy of every
				  notice of discontinuance of service sent to such residential consumer, provided
				  that such third party indicates in writing his or her willingness to receive
				  such notices.
(b) Such corporations
				  shall notify residential consumers annually of the availability of the
				  third-party notice procedure.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter D - Rates And Charges › Part 275 - Notices Of Discontinuance And Complaint Procedures › Section 275.15 - Installment plans for residential customers

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
No such corporation shall terminate service to a customer
					 because of the customer's failure to pay for service unless the corporation has
					 first offered a monthly installment plan that is just and equitable. Each
					 corporation must offer a just and equitable monthly plan to all customers whose
					 service has been disconnected for nonpayment. To the extent practicable, the
					 monthly installment plan should be based on the customer's ability to pay, past
					 payment history, the amount of indebtedness, and the availability of other
					 resources. The monthly installment plan should require a customer to pay
					 current bills and a portion of past indebtedness. A new monthly installment
					 plan need not be offered to a customer who is in default on an existing
					 one.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter D - Rates And Charges › Part 277 - Interest On Customer Overpayments To Gas Utilities › Section 277.1 - General

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Every gas corporation or municipality shall provide
					 interest on customer overpayments according to the standards and criteria set
					 forth in this Part.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter D - Rates And Charges › Part 277 - Interest On Customer Overpayments To Gas Utilities › Section 277.2 - Standards

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
A customer overpayment is defined as payment by the
					 customer to the utility in excess of the correct charge for gas service
					 supplied to the customer which was caused by erroneous billing by the
					 utility.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter D - Rates And Charges › Part 277 - Interest On Customer Overpayments To Gas Utilities › Section 277.3 - Rate of interest

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
The rate of interest on such amounts shall be the greater
					 of the unadjusted customer deposit rate or the applicable late payment rate, if
					 any, for the service classification under which the customer was billed.
					 Interest shall be paid from the date when the customer overpayment was made,
					 adjusted for any changes in the deposit rate or late payment rate, and
					 compounded monthly, until the date when the overpayment was
					 refunded.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter D - Rates And Charges › Part 277 - Interest On Customer Overpayments To Gas Utilities › Section 277.4 - Limitations

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
This Part applies to refunds returned to customers after
					 the effective date of these rules. No gas corporation or municipality shall be
					 required to pay interest on customer overpayments that are refunded within 30
					 days after such overpayment is received by the gas corporation or
					 municipality.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter E - Records; Reports › Part 293 - Retention By Gas Corporations Of Records At Principal Office › Section 293.1 - Retention of records at principal office required

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Every corporation, company, association, joint stock
					 association, partnership and person under the jurisdiction of this commission
					 shall retain possession of all accounts, books, contracts, records, documents
					 and papers, and hold them for inspection by the Public Service Commission or
					 its agents or employees at the principal office of such corporation, company,
					 association, joint stock association, partnership and person under the
					 jurisdiction of this commission until this commission has approved of the
					 transfer of its or their property.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter E - Records; Reports › Part 293 - Retention By Gas Corporations Of Records At Principal Office › Section 293.2 - Notice of transfer

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
No such accounts, books, contracts, records, documents and
					 papers shall be transferred from the principal office of such corporation,
					 company, association, joint stock association, partnership and person under the
					 jurisdiction of this commission until notice of such transfer has been filed,
					 in accordance with the requirements of section
					 3.5 
					 of this Title, to the commission and approval thereof
					 granted.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter E - Records; Reports › Part 294 - Continuing Property Records-gas Corporations › Section 294.1 - Corporations affected

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Every gas or gas and electric corporation having annual gas
					 operating revenues of $100,000 or over shall establish, provide and maintain
					 continuing property records of its property used wholly or partly in gas
					 operations.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter E - Records; Reports › Part 294 - Continuing Property Records-gas Corporations › Section 294.2 - Requirements of continuing property records

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Such continuing property record shall comply with the
					 following requirements:
(a) Such
				  record shall be divided into continuing property record units which shall be
				  arranged to conform with the operating property or the fixed capital accounts
				  and shall include a description of each of such units.
(b) The original cost of each of such units
				  shall be set forth provided that in those cases where the original cost cannot
				  be ascertained without unreasonable expense, such original cost shall be
				  estimated.
(c) Except as otherwise
				  provided herein, there shall be shown for property hereafter installed, and for
				  present property so far as can be ascertained, either in such record or in
				  supporting data thereto, for each of such units, the date when charged to
				  operating property or fixed capital, the location of the property, the
				  manufacturer's name and any number or other identification mark imprinted
				  thereon, the accounting company number or designation, and such other
				  description as may be necessary to plainly identify the property and the
				  associated original cost thereof.
(d) When meters or major units of gas
				  production, holder or regulator station equipment have been retired and
				  subsequently reinstalled, the date when such property was first charged to
				  operating property or fixed capital shall also be shown.
(e) Such property record shall show
				  separately the units located in each city, village or town, and in the case of
				  New York City in each borough, and in each gas production, holder or regulator
				  station. When a corporation desires a modification of this requirement,
				  application should be made to the commission.
(f) There shall be shown by appropriate
				  reference the source of all entries; and all drawings and computations and
				  other detail records, supporting either the quantities or the cost included in
				  the continuing property record, shall be retained.
(g) The original cost of each parcel of land
				  and each structure owned in fee shall be set forth and no further subdivision
				  need be shown.
(h) The original
				  cost of easements for right of way shall be separately set forth for each
				  transmission line.
(i) Property
				  consisting of a large number of similar units may be grouped and only the
				  average unit cost need be set forth for similar units of each size installed
				  during a calendar year, except that for gas meter installations separate unit
				  costs need not be set forth for each year of installation.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter E - Records; Reports › Part 294 - Continuing Property Records-gas Corporations › Section 294.3 - Filing of proposed record units

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Every gas or gas and electric corporation affected by this
					 Part shall file on or before February 1, 1937 a statement setting forth the
					 continuing property record units proposed to be used in its continuing property
					 record.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter E - Records; Reports › Part 294 - Continuing Property Records-gas Corporations › Section 294.4 - Completion of continuing property records

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) The continuing property record herein
				  ordered to be established shall be completed as to property installed prior to
				  January 1, 1937 on or before December 31, 1937. When a corporation desires a
				  modification of this requirement, application should be made to the commission
				  on or before November 1, 1937.
(b)
				  Upon the completion of the continuing property record of property acquired
				  prior to January 1, 1937, notice shall be given this commission.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter E - Records; Reports › Part 294 - Continuing Property Records-gas Corporations › Section 294.5 - Certain records required

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Each
				  corporation affected by this Part shall keep such records of property and
				  property retirements as will reflect, so far as practicable, the service life
				  of all property retired, and will permit the determination of the age of all
				  existing property; and also such records as will reflect the salvage and cost
				  of removal of property retired from each account including property used wholly
				  or partly in gas operations.
(b)
				  Each such corporation shall also maintain such records supporting its books of
				  account as are necessary to show the reserves accumulated to provide for
				  depreciation or ultimate retirement of its property used wholly or partly in
				  gas operations, separately for each operating property or fixed capital
				  account.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter E - Records; Reports › Part 294 - Continuing Property Records-gas Corporations › Section 294.6 - Original cost defined

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
The term original cost when used herein means the cost of
					 such property to the person or corporation first devoting it to public
					 service.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter E - Records; Reports › Part 294 - Continuing Property Records-gas Corporations › Section 294.7 - Amounts charged in previous years to operating expenses

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Nothing herein stated shall be taken as permitting the
					 recording in the original cost shown in the continuing property record of
					 amounts charged in previous years to operating expenses, operating taxes or
					 other income or surplus accounts.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter E - Records; Reports › Part 295 - Accounts, Records And Reports Of General Business Corporations Providing Incidental Utility Service › Section 295.1 - Petition for exemption

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Any general business corporation supplying utility service
					 where such utility service is wholly subsidiary and incidental to its primary
					 business and is minor in amount as compared with its nonutility operations, may
					 submit to this commission a properly verified petition setting forth the nature
					 and extent of both its general business and its utility business, the number of
					 customers served, the amount of revenue received from such business, and the
					 reasons why it is believed it is not necessary in the proper regulation of its
					 utility operations that its accounts and records be kept pursuant to the
					 applicable system of accounts prescribed by this commission, or that it file
					 with this commission annual reports in the form provided for applicable
					 utilities.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter E - Records; Reports › Part 295 - Accounts, Records And Reports Of General Business Corporations Providing Incidental Utility Service › Section 295.2 - Action on petition

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Upon the receipt of such a petition the commission will
					 conduct a public hearing or make such other investigation as it shall deem
					 necessary, and if it be found that proper and adequate regulation does not
					 require the keeping of accounts in compliance with the system of accounts
					 applicable to corporations primarily engaged in the public utility business or
					 the filing of the type of annual reports required to be filed by such utility
					 corporations, the petitioning corporation may be relieved from keeping its
					 records and accounts in accordance with the applicable system of accounts
					 prescribed by this commission but instead be authorized to keep only such
					 accounts as shall be directed, and may be further authorized to file such form
					 of annual report as may be prescribed.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter E - Records; Reports › Part 296 - Producers Of Indigenous Natural Gas-records › Section 296.1 - General rule

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Each producer of indigenous natural gas that sells or
					 transports such gas to industrial or commercial users shall maintain records of
					 the volumes of such gas sold or transported to such users. For the purposes of
					 this section, indigenous natural gas shall mean gas produced from wells within
					 New York State. These records shall include the name and address of the user;
					 the person or organization to which the producer delivers the gas; and the
					 volumes sold or transported to each user. Production which is aggregated or
					 pooled for marketing to multiple users may be reported on a combined basis as
					 sold or delivered to the aggregating entity.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter E - Records; Reports › Part 296 - Producers Of Indigenous Natural Gas-records › Section 296.2 - Filing requirements

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Each
				  producer of indigenous natural gas shall submit a report of gas transported or
				  sold during each calendar year on or before the succeeding March 31st on the
				  Annual Well Report (form 85-15-4) of the Department of Environmental
				  Conservation.
(b) The secretary of
				  the commission is directed to file a copy of the resolution with the Secretary
				  of State.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter F - UNIFORM SYSTEMS OF ACCOUNTS › Article 1 - CLASSES A AND B › Part 310 - General Provisions › Section 310.1 - Authorization of uniform system of accounts for classes a and b

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) The uniform system of accounts for gas
					 corporations (classes A and B) is hereby prescribed for every gas corporation
					 (as that term is defined in the Public Service Law) that has annual operating
					 revenues from gas operations of $1,000,000 or more, subject to the jurisdiction
					 of this commission; and every such gas corporation is hereby required, by not
					 later than January 1, 2000, to keep its records and accounts in conformity
					 therewith.
(b) During the 12 months
					 following the date on which the uniform system of accounts becomes effective,
					 any such gas corporation may, for purposes of comparison, keep on its books, in
					 addition to the accounts hereby prescribed, such portion or portions of its
					 present accounts as may be deemed desirable by any such corporation.
(c) In prescribing this system of accounts,
					 the commission does not commit itself to the approval or acceptance of any item
					 set out in any account for the purpose of fixing rates or in determining other
					 matters before the commission.
(d)
					 In the system of accounts, commission means the Public Service Commission of
					 the State of New York.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter F - UNIFORM SYSTEMS OF ACCOUNTS › Article 1 - CLASSES A AND B › Part 311 - Instructions-general › Section 311.1 - Classification of utilities

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(a) For
					 the purpose of applying systems of accounts prescribed by the commission,
					 utilities are divided into four classes as follows:
(1) Class A. Utilities having annual gas
					 operating revenues of $2,500,000 or more.
(2) Class B. Utilities having annual gas
					 operating revenues of $1,000,000 or more but less than $2,500,000.
(3) Class C. Utilities having annual gas
					 operating revenues of $150,000 or more but less than $1,000,000.
(4) Class D. Utilities having annual gas
					 operating revenues of $25,000 or more but less than $150,000.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter F - UNIFORM SYSTEMS OF ACCOUNTS › Article 1 - CLASSES A AND B › Part 311 - Instructions-general › Section 311.2 - Records

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The books and records referred to in this Subchapter
						include not only accounting records in a limited technical sense, but all other
						records, such as minute books, stock books, reports, correspondence, memoranda,
						etc. that may be useful in developing the history of, or facts regarding, any
						transaction. All such records in the system of accounts shall be accessible, at
						all times, to the authorized representatives of the commission at a location
						within the State of New York, unless the company is specifically exempted by
						order of the commission.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter F - UNIFORM SYSTEMS OF ACCOUNTS › Article 1 - CLASSES A AND B › Part 312 - INSTRUCTIONS-BALANCE SHEET ACCOUNTS › Section 312.1 - System of accounts prescribed

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Each class A and class B gas utility shall keep its
						accounts in conformity with the
Code of Federal Regulations
(April 1, 2015), Title 18,
Conservation of Power and Water
						Resources,
subchapter C - Accounts, Federal Power Act, Part 201,
						Uniform System of Accounts Prescribed for Natural Gas Companies subject to the
						provisions of the Federal Power Act. (As further described in section
						10.2[b] 
						of this Title.)
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter F - UNIFORM SYSTEMS OF ACCOUNTS › Article 1 - CLASSES A AND B › Part 312 - INSTRUCTIONS-BALANCE SHEET ACCOUNTS › Section 312.2 - Records for territorial subdivisions

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To the extent that utility's customer rates are based on
						a cost area or accounting division, the records that support those rates shall
						be maintained.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter F - UNIFORM SYSTEMS OF ACCOUNTS › Article 1 - CLASSES A AND B › Part 312 - INSTRUCTIONS-BALANCE SHEET ACCOUNTS › Section 312.3 - Work order and property record system required

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(a) The work order system shall include a
					 work order estimate and work in progress record, which shall be supported as
					 indicated in subdivisions (b) and (c) of this section. Standing work orders may
					 be used by class A and B utilities for projects of relatively small value
					 (
e.g.,
$100,000); except that projects upon which interest
					 during construction is charged shall not be recorded through standing work
					 orders. These limits may be modified by order of the commission when warranted
					 by particular circumstances.
(b)
					 The work order estimate shall include the following particulars:
(1) The designation number or letter and the
					 signature of the officer or employee who authorized the work or purchase. If
					 the authorization is by the board of directors or other body, an appropriate
					 officer shall so state above his signature.
(2) A description and location of the work to
					 be done (or the purchase to be made), stating the reasons the work is
					 necessary, and the dates between which such work (or purchase) is to be
					 accomplished. For each project for which interest during construction is
					 charged, the date completed and the date placed in operation shall be shown
					 either in the work order estimate or the work in progress record.
(3) Detailed estimates of the cost of the
					 project is to be supported by maps, plans, diagrams, specifications, etc., as
					 applicable.
(4) The account or
					 accounts to which the cost of the project is chargeable and the amount
					 chargeable to each account.
(5) Any
					 variations between estimates and actual costs of the project.
(6) When a project involves changes to
					 existing property, either the work order estimate or the work in progress
					 record shall show the year of installation of any property retired or otherwise
					 affected and shall show or refer to other records that cover the book costs (or
					 an estimate if not known, and a statement explaining the basis for that
					 estimate) and the name and page of the accounting and engineering books and
					 records covering such installation and the cost thereof.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter F - UNIFORM SYSTEMS OF ACCOUNTS › Article 1 - CLASSES A AND B › Part 312 - INSTRUCTIONS-BALANCE SHEET ACCOUNTS › Section 312.4 - Spreading of income, revenue, and expense items

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When the amount of any unusual item includible in the
						income, operating revenue, or operating expense accounts is relatively so large
						that its inclusion in the accounts for the year in which the transactions
						occurred, would seriously distort net income, the company may request
						permission to include all or a part of the amount in account 186, miscellaneous
						deferred debits, or account 253, other deferred credits to be amortized over
						such period and through such accounts as the commission shall determine.
						Without permission of this commission, no such item shall be carried beyond the
						calendar year in which the transaction occurred.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter F - UNIFORM SYSTEMS OF ACCOUNTS › Article 1 - CLASSES A AND B › Part 312 - INSTRUCTIONS-BALANCE SHEET ACCOUNTS › Section 312.5 - Transportation of gas of others-distribution facilities

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Revenues from transporting gas to the utility's customers
						through the distribution facilities of the utility where the gas is provided by
						a party other than the utility shall be included in account 489.3,
						transportation of gas of others - distribution facilities. Subsidiary accounts
						shall be maintained to break down these revenues according to the
						classification of accounts under the sales of electricity revenue accounts.
						Records shall be maintained so that the quantity of gas transported and the
						revenue received under each rate schedule shall be readily available.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter F - UNIFORM SYSTEMS OF ACCOUNTS › Article 1 - CLASSES A AND B › Part 312 - INSTRUCTIONS-BALANCE SHEET ACCOUNTS › Section 312.6 - Gains or losses from the settlement of asset retirement obligations

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Gains or losses resulting from the settlement of asset
						retirement obligations associated with utility plant resulting from the
						difference between the amount of the liability for the asset retirement
						obligation included in account 230, asset retirement obligation, and the actual
						amount paid to settle the obligation shall be accounted for as follows:
(a) gains shall be credited to account 108,
					 accumulated provision for depreciation of gas utility plant; and
(b) losses should be charged to account 108,
					 accumulated provision for depreciation of gas utility plant.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter F - UNIFORM SYSTEMS OF ACCOUNTS › Article 1 - CLASSES A AND B › Part 312 - INSTRUCTIONS-BALANCE SHEET ACCOUNTS › Section 312.7 to 312.9 - Repealed

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New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter F - UNIFORM SYSTEMS OF ACCOUNTS › Article 2 - Classes C and D › Part 320 - General Provisions › Section 320.0 - Order authorizing uniform system of accounts for gas corporations in classes c and d

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(a) The uniform
					 system of accounts for gas corporations (classes C and D) is hereby prescribed
					 for every gas corporation (as that term is defined in the Public Service Law)
					 which has annual operating revenues from gas operations in excess of $25,000
					 but not exceeding $1,000,000, and for 27,731 every lessor and inchoate and
					 dormant gas corporation subject to the jurisdiction of this commission, and
					 that every such gas corporation be required and hereby is required, on and
					 after January 1, 1969, to keep its records and accounts in conformity
					 therewith.
(b) During the 12 months
					 following the date on which said uniform system of accounts becomes effective,
					 any such gas corporation may, for purposes of comparison, keep on its books, in
					 addition to the accounts hereby prescribed, such portion or portions of its
					 present accounts as may be deemed desirable by any such corporation.
(c) Each gas corporation for which this
					 uniform system of accounts is prescribed shall classify, set forth, and carry
					 all assets, liabilities, capital stock, and surplus existing as of the
					 effective date of this uniform system of accounts, as prescribed in such system
					 of accounts.
(d) Each such gas
					 corporation shall prepare and file in triplicate with the commission not later
					 than six months after the effective date of this uniform system of accounts,
					 summary statements showing (1) the closing balance of each balance sheet
					 account carried on the books directly preceding the effective date of this
					 system of accounts prescribed herein, the title of each account under this
					 system of accounts to which any portion thereof was transferred, and the amount
					 so transferred, and (2) the opening balance of each account under this system
					 of accounts, the title of each account from which any portion thereof was
					 transferred, and the amount so transferred. Reserves existing at the effective
					 date of this system of accounts accumulated to provide for losses upon
					 retirement or withdrawal of property from service, depreciation, amortization,
					 depletion or replacement of fixed capital or operating property shall be
					 transferred to the accounts prescribed herein for depreciation and amortization
					 reserves.
(e) In prescribing this
					 system of accounts, the commission does not commit itself to the approval or
					 acceptance of any item set out in any account, for the purpose of fixing rates
					 or in determining other matters before the commission.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter F - UNIFORM SYSTEMS OF ACCOUNTS › Article 2 - Classes C and D › Part 320 - General Provisions › Section 320.1 - Definitions

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(a) When used in
					 this system of accounts:
(1) Accounts means
					 the accounts prescribed in this system of accounts.
(2) Associated companies means companies or
					 persons that, directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries,
					 control, or are controlled by, or are under common control with, the accounting
					 company.
(3) Control (including the
					 terms controlling, controlled by, and under common control with) means the
					 possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the
					 direction of the management and policies of a company, whether such power is
					 exercised through one or more intermediary companies, or alone, or in
					 conjunction with, or pursuant to an agreement, and whether such power is
					 established through a majority or minority ownership or voting of securities,
					 common directors, officers, or stockholders, voting trusts, holding trusts,
					 associated companies, contract, or any other direct or indirect
					 means.
(4) Commission or this
					 commission means the Public Service Commission of the State of New
					 York.
(5) Company. (See paragraph
					 [10], infra.)
(6) Cost means the
					 amount of money actually paid for property or services or the cash value at the
					 time of the transaction of any consideration other than money. (See, however,
					 gas plant instruction, section
					 322.1 
					 of this Title.)
(7) Gas
					 corporation. (See Public Service Law.)
(8) Long-term debt means notes or other
					 obligations having a life of more than one year from date of creation or
					 assumption (except obligations representing advances from associated companies)
					 and all unmatured bonds and receivers' certificates.
(9) Original cost, as applied to gas plant,
					 means the cost of such property to the person first devoting it to public
					 service.
(10) Person means an
					 individual, a corporation, a partnership, an association, a joint-stock
					 company, a business trust, or any organized group of persons, whether
					 incorporated or not, or any receiver or trustee.
(11) Utility or utility company as used
					 herein and when not otherwise indicated in the context, means any gas
					 corporation. (See Public Service Law.)