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New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 228 - Testing Gas Meters On Complaint Of Customers › Section 228.3 - Referee test result

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(a)
(1) The result of a referee test shall be the
				  average of three tests at the check rate where the test results are expressed
				  to the nearest 0.1 percent.
(2) A
				  meter shall be deemed accurate if the average of the three referee tests is
				  within +- 2.0 percent of 100 percent proof. The proof of a meter is the percent
				  registration found when the meter is tested. A proof of 100 percent indicates
				  the meter is accurate. A proof less than 100 percent indicates the meter is
				  fast (+) and registers more volume than actually passed through the meter. A
				  proof of more than 100 percent indicates the meter is slow (-) and registers
				  less volume than actually passed through the meter.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 228 - Testing Gas Meters On Complaint Of Customers › Section 228.4 - Adjustment of bills for fast meters

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If, upon conducting a referee test, a gas meter is found to
					 be registering more than two percent fast (98.0% proof), the customer's bills
					 shall be adjusted for that amount that deviates from 100 percent proof for one
					 half of the quantity registered since the last test of the meter for a period
					 not to exceed six years. Where the same meter has served more than one customer
					 since last test, the original test date shall still apply; however, the current
					 customer's bills shall not be adjusted beyond his/her turn-on date. However, if
					 a customer can provide copies of his/her bills beyond the six-year period, the
					 bills will be used up to the time of last meter test. If it can be established
					 that the error is due to an accident or other cause, the approximate date of
					 which can be determined, the bill shall be adjusted back to such date, or a
					 maximum of six years. If, however, the consumer has suffered no damage from
					 said error by virtue of the fact that the meter has registered a quantity of
					 gas less than that allowed for the minimum rate of the applicable rate
					 schedule, no adjustment will be made. No refund will be made if the meter error
					 was caused by the customer's action.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 229 - Gas Standards › Heating Value › Section 229.1 - Definitions

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(a) The term
					 heating value per cubic foot shall be defined as being identical to that of
					 total calorific value provided by the current relevant code of the American
					 Society for Testing and Materials. It may be expressed on a wet or dry basis
					 and so labeled. The factor for converting heating value per cubic foot on the
					 wet basis to the dry basis at 60 degrees Fahrenheit, and the same pressure base
					 conditions, is 1.0177. Except where noted, the wet basis of measurement is
					 inferred in the remainder of this Part.
(b) One therm is equal to 100,000 British
					 thermal units.
(c) Therm billing is
					 defined as a method of billing consumers, for the actual amount of energy used,
					 in units of therms.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 229 - Gas Standards › Heating Value › Section 229.2 - Average heating value

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(a) Average
					 heating value for all gas distributed in each municipality or part thereof on a
					 volumetric basis shall have a continuous:
(1)
					 monthly average heating value of not less than 1,000 British thermal units per
					 cubic foot or that amount specified by the company in its tariff
					 schedule;
(2) three-day average
					 heating value of not less than 980 British thermal units per cubic foot or 98
					 percent of that amount specified by the company in its tariff
					 schedule.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 229 - Gas Standards › Heating Value › Section 229.3 - Equipment and testing procedures

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Each company shall provide each of its testing stations
						required by section
						229.50(a)-(d) 
						of this Part with equipment fully complying and standardized, maintained,
						adjusted and calibrated in full compliance with procedures acceptable to this
						commission.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 229 - Gas Standards › Heating Value › Section 229.4 - Required tests

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(a) Unless
					 tests are made as provided for under subdivision (c) of this section, each
					 company shall install a recording calorimeter at each of its testing stations
					 required by section
					 229.50(a)-(d) 
					 of this Part, the installation of said recording calorimeter to be subject to
					 acceptance by this commission. Each recording calorimeter shall be maintained
					 and operated by each company in such a manner as to continuously record the
					 heating value of all distributed gas. Each recording calorimeter shall be
					 calibrated weekly with a certified standard gas with a heating value that was
					 determined by comparison with that of a standard methane, accurate to within
					 1.0 British thermal unit per cubic foot, certified by the National Bureau of
					 Standards.
(b) The results of the
					 calibration shall be recorded. Each said recording calorimeter shall be
					 adjusted if it is determined to be in error.
(c) Other methods of determining heating
					 value of distributed gas may be used providing they have been approved by this
					 commission before they are used.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 229 - Gas Standards › Heating Value › Section 229.5 - Records

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(a) Each company
					 shall compute and record both daily and monthly the average heating value of
					 the distributed gas tested at each of its testing stations as required by
					 section
					 229.50(a)-(d) 
					 of this Part and as determined by the tests required by section
					 229.4 
					 of this Part. For every testing station where a recording calorimeter is
					 maintained and operated, a continuous record of the heating value of the
					 distributed gas, as determined by the recording calorimeter, shall be
					 maintained and the corrected averaged heating value of the distributed gas
					 shall be computed and recorded both daily and monthly from the continuous
					 record, except that for each day that the corrected maximum heating value
					 exceeds the corrected minimum heating value by two or more percent of the
					 latter, the corrected average, minimum and maximum heating value of the
					 distributed gas shall be computed and recorded from the continuous record. A
					 copy of each heating value record shall be maintained at its originating
					 testing stations.
(b) Where therm
					 billing is employed, all records of calibration and tests made to determine the
					 accuracy of the therm billing factor shall be maintained by the
					 company.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 229 - Gas Standards › Impurities › Section 229.10 - Hydrogen sulfide

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(a) Allowable
					 concentration. The gas distributed by each company shall contain no quantity of
					 hydrogen sulfide greater than that permitted by subdivision (b) of this
					 section.
(b) Equipment and testing
					 procedure.
(1) Each company shall provide each
					 of its testing stations required by section
					 229.50  of
					 this Part with equipment for the qualitative determination of the hydrogen
					 sulfide content of gas fully complying with the provisions of this Part. In
					 each instance of evidence of or doubt or difference of opinion regarding the
					 presence of hydrogen sulfide in the distributed gas, or where directed by this
					 commission, the company shall provide said testing stations with equipment for
					 the quantitative determination of the hydrogen sulfide content of gas fully
					 complying and maintained in full compliance with the provisions of paragraphs
					 65 through 87 of the relevant effective code of the American Petroleum
					 Institute, the presently effective code being entitled "Recommended Practice
					 for Measuring, Sampling, and Testing Natural Gas (RP 50 A, Third Edition)" (the
					 presently effective code hereinafter referred to as APIRP 50 A).
(2) Each company shall make all of the
					 determinations of the hydrogen sulfide content of the distributed gas required
					 by subdivision (c) of this section in full compliance with the following
					 procedure and record the results thereof:
A strip of white filter paper moistened with a fresh
						solution containing five percent by weight of lead acetate shall be exposed to
						the distributed gas for one minute in a previously purged apparatus, fully
						complying and maintained in full compliance with the form recommended therefor
						by the second edition of Circular 48 of the National Bureau of Standards
						entitled "Standard Methods of Gas Testing" (hereinafter referred to as NBS C
						48), through which the gas flows at a rate of approximately five cubic feet per
						hour. The gas shall not directly impinge upon the test strip during the test.
						At the end of the stated time, the test strip thus exposed shall be compared
						with a second test strip similarly prepared but not exposed to the gas. If the
						exposed strip is ascertained to be not noticeably darker than the comparison
						strip, the gas shall be considered to be free of hydrogen sulfide. If the
						exposed strip is ascertained to be noticeably darker than the comparison strip
						or if there is any doubt or difference of opinion regarding the color of the
						exposed strip, the gas shall be quantitatively tested for hydrogen sulfide in
						full compliance with the provisions of API RP 50 A.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 229 - Gas Standards › Impurities › Section 229.11 - Total sulfur

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(a) Allowable
					 concentration. The gas distributed by each company shall contain not more than
					 30 grains of total sulfur per 100 cubic feet of gas volume measured at a
					 temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit and an absolute pressure of 30 inches of
					 mercury column.
(b) Equipment,
					 testing procedure and required tests.
(1) In
					 each instance of evidence of or doubt or difference of opinion regarding the
					 presence of total sulfur in the distributed gas, or where directed by this
					 commission, each company shall:
(i) provide
					 its testing stations required by subdivisions (a) through (d) of section
					 229.50  of
					 this Part with equipment for the quantitative determination of the total sulfur
					 content of gas fully complying and maintained in full compliance with any one
					 of the foms recommended therefor by NBS C 48, or with the provisions of the
					 relevant effective code of the American Society for Testing and Materials, the
					 presently effective code being entitled "Standard Method of Test for Total
					 Sulfur in Fuel Gases (D 1072-56)", and including a calibrated integrating dry
					 displacement meter whose index may be read to 0.001 cubic foot;
(ii) make all of the quantitative
					 determinations of the total sulfur content of the distributed gas that may be
					 required by this commission likewise in full compliance with either code;
					 and
(iii) quantitatively determine
					 and record the total sulfur content of the distributed gas at its testing
					 stations required by subdivisions (a) through (d) of section
					 229.50  of
					 this Part as directed by this commission.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 229 - Gas Standards › Impurities › Section 229.12 - Ammonia

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(a) Allowable
					 concentration. The gas distributed by each company shall contain not more than
					 five grains of ammonia per 100 cubic feet of gas volume measured at a
					 temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit and an absolute pressure of 30 inches of
					 mercury column.
(b) Equipment,
					 testing procedure and required tests. In each instance of evidence of or doubt
					 or difference of opinion regarding the presence of ammonia in the distributed
					 gas, each company may be required to make suitable tests therefor with suitable
					 equipment and a suitable testing procedure at its testing stations required by
					 subdivisions (a) through (d) of section
					 229.50  of
					 this Part as directed by this commission.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 229 - Gas Standards › Specific Gravity › Section 229.21 - Required tests

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(a)
					 Determination for metering purposes. Where a company is required by the
					 provisions of section
					 229.20(a) 
					 herein to provide any of its testing stations required herein by section
					 229.50(a)-(d) 
					 of this Part with a recording gravitometer for the purpose of determining the
					 specific gravity of the distributed gas in a manner adequate for orifice and
					 other types of velocity metering, said company shall continuously record the
					 specific gravity of the distributed gas therewith. Each said recording
					 gravitometer shall be calibrated once each calendar month at intervals of not
					 more than 35 days and the results recorded. Each said recording gravitometer
					 shall be adjusted if it is determined to be in error.
(b) Automatic determination. Where the tests
					 set forth in subdivision (a) of this section are not required, the company
					 shall determine the specific gravity of the distributed gas either in
					 compliance with subdivision (c) of this section or continuously determine the
					 specific gravity of the distributed gas with automatic specific gravity
					 equipment at the testing stations required herein by section
					 229.50(a)-(d) 
					 of this Part in compliance with this rule. Where the automatic specific gravity
					 equipment is of an indicating type, the specific gravity of the distributed gas
					 shall be read and recorded daily therefrom. In all instances, automatic
					 specific gravity equipment shall be calibrated once each alternate calendar
					 month at intervals of not more than 70 days and the results recorded.
(c) Manual determination. Unless tests are
					 made in conformity with subdivision (a) or (b) of this section, each company
					 shall determine and record the specific gravity of the distributed gas with
					 manual specific gravity equipment at the testing stations required herein by
					 section
					 229.50(a)-(d) 
					 of this Part except that at a testing station testing gas obtained from a
					 stand-by source, said tests need not be made during any day that gas be
					 obtained from said stand-by source for a total of less than one hour.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 229 - Gas Standards › Specific Gravity › Section 229.22 - Records

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The average specific gravity of the distributed gas
						tested at each of its testing stations required herein by section
						229.50(a)-(d) 
						of this Part, as determined by the tests required herein by section
						229.21 
						of this Part, shall be computed and recorded for each day and each calendar
						month by each company. In each instance of a testing station where a recording
						gravitometer is maintained and operated, a continuous record of the specific
						gravity of the distributed gas, as determined by said recording gravitometer,
						shall be maintained and the corrected average specific gravity of the
						distributed gas be computed and recorded for each day and each calendar month
						from said continuous record except that for each day that the corrected maximum
						specific gravity exceeds the corrected minimum specific gravity by two or more
						per cent of the latter, the corrected average, maximum and minimum specific
						gravity of the distributed gas be computed and recorded from said continuous
						record. A copy of each specific gravity record shall be maintained at its
						originating testing station.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 229 - Gas Standards › Chemical Composition › Section 229.30 - Equipment

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Each company shall provide each of its testing stations
						required herein by section
						229.50(a)-(d) 
						of this Part with appropriate equipment for the determination of the partial
						chemical composition (percentages of carbon dioxide, illuminants, oxygen and
						carbon monoxide) of gas.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 229 - Gas Standards › Chemical Composition › Section 229.31 - Required tests and testing procedure

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(a) Where a company is periodically supplied
					 with reports regarding the chemical composition of the natural gas purchased
					 from a transmission corporation, the information in said reports shall be filed
					 with this commission at the time of the filing of the monthly reports required
					 herein by section
					 229.61  of this
					 Part. Said reports shall also include suitable identifying data such as the
					 source of each gas sample tested, the date that it was taken, the date, method
					 and location of test, etc. and sufficient information to demonstrate that each
					 sample is representative of the gas delivered to the company.
(b) In all other instances, each company
					 shall make and record the results of determinations of the chemical composition
					 of the distributed gas at each of its testing stations required herein by
					 section
					 229.50(a)-(d) 
					 of this Part at such intervals and using such methods as may be acceptable to
					 or required by this commission.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 229 - Gas Standards › Additive Gases › Section 229.40 - Combustible additives

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Within 30 days of the effective date hereof, each company
						shall advise this commission, by a letter signed by a responsible official of
						the company, of the extent and circumstances under which it adds supplement
						and/or substitute gas to the gas usually distributed. If, at any time
						subsequent to said filing with this commission, a company proposes new or
						additional sources of supplement and/or substitute gas at existing or new
						locations, said company shall amend its filing, by a letter signed by a
						responsible official of the company, to advise this commission of the proposed
						sources of gas at least 90 days prior to the effective date of said change
						except that, in instances of sudden emergency where such prior notice of the
						proposed sources of gas proves impossible, such notice of the proposed sources
						of gas shall be given to this commission, by a telegram over the name of a
						responsible official of the company, at the earliest possible
						date.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 229 - Gas Standards › Additive Gases › Section 229.41 - Non-combustible additives

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Where a company proposes the addition of air or any other
						extraneous non-combustible gas other than water vapor to the gas previously
						authorized for distribution by this commission, said addition shall not be made
						without the specific authorization thereof of this
						commission.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 229 - Gas Standards › Additive Gases › Section 229.42 - Standards of interchangeability

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In order to establish the quality and proportions in
						which any supplement, substitute or diluent gas may be added to the gas usually
						distributed, each company shall be guided by the relevant effective
						publications of the American Gas Association, Bureau of Mines, Institute of Gas
						Technology and National Bureau of Standards in the design, construction and
						operation of manufactured gas plants and gas mixing stations and the
						compositions and proportions of said gases.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 229 - Gas Standards › Additive Gases › Section 229.43 - Verification of interchangeability

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To assure that the burning qualities of the distributed
						gas do not vary sufficiently to adversely affect the safety and/or efficiency
						of any appliances, each company shall maintain and operate suitable test
						equipment, during the periods when its manufactured gas plant and/or gas mixing
						station is operating, to compare the burning qualities of the distributed gas
						with those of the gas with which its consumers' appliances have been adjusted.
						The types and adjustments of said test equipment shall be representative of
						those of its consumers' appliances. The performance of said test equipment
						shall be observed at frequent intervals whenever supplement, substitute or
						diluent gas is added to the gas usually distributed and be considered to be
						indicative of the actual interchangeability of the gases involved. Records
						shall be kept of the periodic observation of the performance of said test
						equipment.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 229 - Gas Standards › Testing Stations › Section 229.50 - Number and location

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Within 30 days of the effective date hereof, each company
						shall advise this commission, by a letter signed by a responsible official of
						the company, of the location of each of the testing stations to be provided,
						maintained and operated by the company and the source of the gas that each of
						said testing stations purports to test. If, at any time subsequent to said
						filing with this commission, a company obtains additional or new sources of
						gas, said company shall amend its filing at least 90 days prior to the
						effective date of said change, by a letter signed by a responsible official of
						the company, to advise this commission of the additional or new sources and the
						testing stations to be provided, maintained and operated for testing the gas to
						be obtained therefrom. All testing stations shall meet the following
						requirements:
(a) Single company
					 testing stations.
(1) Where a company
					 purchases or produces gas at one or more locations, testing stations shall be
					 provided, maintained and operated by said company, with one testing station for
					 each separate ultimate source of gas, located between the location of
					 conditioning of said gas and the point of mixture of the gas with gas from any
					 other source. All of the tests required herein shall apply to said testing
					 stations.
(2) Where a company has
					 two or more sources of gas supplying one distribution system, said company may
					 be required to provide and maintain such addtional testing stations on its
					 distribution system as may be necessary to enable this commission's staff to
					 verify the quality of the mixture of gases being delivered to consumers'
					 premises.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 229 - Gas Standards › Testing Stations › Section 229.51 - Equipment, maintenance and availability

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Each company shall provide each of its testing stations
						required herein by subdivisions (a) through (d) of section
						229.50  of
						this Part with suitable equipment, including apparatus, reagents and facilities
						for testing gas, together with all necessary accessories and appurtenances, as
						required herein and maintain said equipment in good condition. The contents of
						each said testing station shall be subject to acceptance by this commission.
						Access to each said testing station shall be available at all times to the
						staff of this commission for the purpose of making gas tests and/or inspections
						of the testing station.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 229 - Gas Standards › Testing Stations › Section 229.52 - Gas sampling

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Where a company makes any of the tests required herein on
						gas that is sampled at a location other than that of the test, said gas shall
						be sampled in full compliance with the provisions of the relevant effective
						code of the American Society for Testing Materials, the presently effective
						codes being entitled "Standard Method of Sampling Natural Gas (D 1145-53)" and
						"Standard Method of Sampling Manufactured Gas (D 1247-54)."
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 229 - Gas Standards › Records and Reports › Section 229.60 - Records

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Each company shall retain all of its records of the tests
						required herein on suitable forms for a period of not less than two years for
						examination and inspection by the staff of this commission.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 229 - Gas Standards › Records and Reports › Section 229.61 - Reports

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Each company shall file a report for each calendar month
						with the office of this commission in the City of New York or in the City of
						Albany not more than 20 days after the expiration of the calendar month
						including the results of all tests and computations required herein, full
						relevant information for each testing station required herein, an explanation
						for each instance of noncompliance with the rules and regulations herein that
						may have occurred and a statement regarding each relevant emergency that may
						have occurred. Said report shall be furnished on a form, corresponding to that
						illustrated in form B and form C, Appendix 7-B of this Title, and provided by
						the company, be signed by a responsible official of the
						company.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 229 - Gas Standards › Publications › Section 229.70 - Revision of other publications referred to herein

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For the purpose of complying with the rules and
						regulations herein, each company shall be governed, insofar as the same are
						herein made applicable, by the provisions of the publications of the American
						Gas Association, American Petroleum Institute, American Society for Testing
						Materials, Bureau of Mines, Institute of Gas Technology and National Bureau of
						Standards referred to herein which were in effect December 31, 1956. Upon the
						filing by a company of copies of an amended or revised edition of any of said
						publications with this commission, said amended or revised edition shall
						replace the edition referred to herein as a standard in the applicability of
						the rules and regulations herein, effective 90 days after the date of said
						filing, unless otherwise directed by this commission.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 230 - Extension Of Mains And Service Lines-gas Corporations › Section 230.1 - Definitions

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Unless the context otherwise requires, as used in this
					 Part:
(a) The term main means a
				  pipeline located on a public or private right-of-way which is generally
				  available or used to transport gas to more than one service line.
(b) The term service line means a piping,
				  including associated metering and pressure reducing appurtenances, that
				  transports gas below grade from a main to the first accessible fitting inside
				  the wall of a customer's building when a meter is located within the building;
				  if a meter is located outside the building, the service line will be deemed to
				  terminate at the outside of the building foundation wall.
(c) The term public right-of-way means the
				  territorial limits of any street, avenue, road or way (other than a limited
				  access thoroughfare) that is for any highway purpose under the jurisdiction of
				  the State of New York or the legislative body of any county, city, town or
				  village and is open to public use.
(d) The term adjusted gas revenue means the
				  revenue realized from the applicable service classification rates and charges,
				  minus revenue taxes, the minimum charge and the cost of gas.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 230 - Extension Of Mains And Service Lines-gas Corporations › Section 230.2 - Provision of gas service

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(a) Utility
				  obligation to provide gas service. When an application for gas service is made
				  to a gas corporation by the owner or occupant of a building situated on
				  property abutting on or having access to any public right-of-way in which the
				  governmental authority having jurisdiction will permit the corporation to
				  install and maintain facilities, the corporation shall render the service
				  requested in accordance with the provisions of this Part. If due to unusual
				  circumstances the actual cost per foot of a particular installation is greater
				  than two times the corporation's average cost per foot of new installations for
				  service for the 12 months ended September 30th of the previous year, it may
				  apply to the commission for relief from so much of this Part as it deems
				  necessary in order to provide the service.
(b) Obligations of all applicants. An
				  applicant shall first have:
(1) assured the
				  corporation that he/she will be a reasonably permanent customer;
(2) agreed in writing to pay to the
				  corporation:
(i) the material and installation
				  costs relating to any portion of the service line, service connections and
				  appurtenant facilities located on his/her property that exceeds the portion
				  which the corporation is required to install without charge;
(ii) any surcharge relating to the portion of
				  the main and appurtenant facilities that exceeds the portion which the
				  corporation is required to install without charge; and
(iii) the rates charged like customers;
				  and
(3) Furnished
				  reasonable security as to the performance of his/her agreement, if required to
				  do so by the corporation.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 230 - Extension Of Mains And Service Lines-gas Corporations › Section 230.4 - Furnishing of rights-of-way or agreement to pay costs

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(a) Each applicant or customer shall execute
				  and deliver to the gas corporation from which service is requested or by which
				  service is being provided, free from cost, satisfactory permanent easements or
				  rights-of-way to permit the corporation to provide service.
(b) The corporation shall not be obliged to
				  provide service to any applicant or customer which has neither:
(1) delivered to the corporation satisfactory
				  permanent easements of rights-of-way; nor
(2) requested that the corporation obtain
				  such easements or rights-of-way, agreed to pay any costs which the corporation
				  incurs in obtaining them and (if required to do so by the corporation)
				  furnished reasonable security as to the performance of his agreement.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 230 - Extension Of Mains And Service Lines-gas Corporations › Section 230.5 - Installation before service required

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Whenever a gas corporation installs service lines, service
					 connections or appurtenant facilities at the request of an applicant who does
					 not immediately desire service, the applicant shall bear the entire reasonable
					 expense of providing, placing and constructing such facilities but shall be
					 entitled to a refund whenever gas service is begun for such part of the expense
					 as the corporation is herein before required to assume. The refund shall be the
					 cost of the service lines and appurtenances, less depreciation at the rate of
					 three percent per year.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 230 - Extension Of Mains And Service Lines-gas Corporations › Section 230.6 - Inspection, maintenance and replacement of facilities

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(a) Each gas corporation shall be solely
				  responsible for the inspection, testing, operation, maintenance, replacement
				  and reconstruction of all mains, service lines, service connections and
				  appurtenant facilities which it uses to supply gas to customers.
(b) The corporation shall bear the cost of
				  inspecting, testing and operating all facilities. It shall bear the cost of
				  maintaining, replacing or reconstructing all main and appurtenant facilities.
				  It shall also bear the cost of maintaining, replacing or reconstructing the
				  service line and appurtenant facilities necessary to serve each as if such
				  customer were an applicant for service, unless an act or ommission of the
				  customer necessitates the replacement or reconstruction.
(c) If an act or omission of any customer who
				  had installed facilities necessitates the replacement or reconstruction of such
				  facilities, the customer shall pay to the corporation the cost of replacement
				  or reconstruction.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 231 - Residential Submetering › Section 231.1 - Prohibition of residential submetering required

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(a) New York State Electric & Gas
				  Corporation, Republic Light, Heat and Power Co., Inc., and the City of Dunkirk
				  shall file appropriate amendments to their tariff schedules, to become
				  effective on January 1, 1955 on not less than 30 days' notice to the public and
				  this commission, prohibiting the submetering, remetering or resale of gas or
				  electricity for residential purposes.
(b) All gas corporations, electric
				  corporations, gas and electric corporations and municipalities other than those
				  named in subdivision (a) of this section, which have not filed with this
				  commission tariff provisions prohibiting the submetering of gas or electricity
				  for residential purposes shall, within 30 days, after service of this Part,
				  file appropriate amendments to their tariff schedules, to become effective on
				  not less than 30 days' notice to the public and this commission, prohibiting
				  the submetering, remetering or resale of gas or electricity for residential
				  purposes.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 232 - Notice Of Interruption Of Service › Section 232.1 - Definition of interruption of service

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For the purposes of the reporting requirements set forth in
					 this Part, an interruption of service shall be the temporary inability to
					 supply gas safely to a customer caused by or related to one or more of the
					 following conditions:
(a) third party
				  damages;
(b) leaks on mains
				  (corrosion, material defect etc.);
(c) water, freeze-up or dry stoppage in gas
				  main or service;
(d) loss in
				  pressure due to inadequate system design or capacity or overpressure conditions
				  which make the continued use of gas appliances hazardous;
(e) high pressure customers interrupted when
				  line pressure is reduced to make repairs;
(f) damage by utility personnel, utility
				  personnel error or improper operating practice;
(g) problem on supplier's system;
				  and
(h) any other similar
				  interruption caused by damage or failure of utility facilities.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 232 - Notice Of Interruption Of Service › Section 232.2 - Report of interruption of service

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Each gas utility and each municipality providing a gas
					 service is required to file with the commission in the manner hereinafter set
					 forth a report of each unscheduled interruption to service upon the
					 distribution systems of such corporation or municipality.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 232 - Notice Of Interruption Of Service › Section 232.3 - Time of filing

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Said reports shall be filed with the commission weekly, not
					 later than Wednesday of the week following that for which the report is
					 rendered; all such reports of interruptions shall be filed with the Public
					 Service Commission, Agency Building 3, Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY
					 12223.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 232 - Notice Of Interruption Of Service › Section 232.4 - Contents

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Such report shall be made on a form 81/2 x 11 inches,
					 arranged in accordance with the form as set out in Appendix 3-A of this section
					 and shall give the following information: the district in which interruption
					 occurred; the week for which report is rendered; the date or dates on which
					 interruptions occurred; the time the company received notification of the
					 interruption; the time the company dispatched its personnel to the scene of the
					 interruption and their arrival time; the times when interruptions began and
					 ended; the duration in hours and minutes of such interruptions; the section of
					 the territory served by the corporation or the municipality affected by such
					 interruption and the approximate number of consumers affected thereby; and the
					 cause or causes of the interruption in reasonable detail. Such report must be
					 signed by a duly authorized officer, or his designee, of such corporation or
					 municipality.
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New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 233 - Minimum Insulation Standards For The Provision Of Gas And Electric Utility Service › Section 233.1 - Definitions

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(a) Dwelling. A
				  building designed or used as the living unit for one or more families. For the
				  purposes of this standard, mobile homes shall not be considered
				  dwellings.
(b) Historical building.
				  Any building or structure designated historically significant by the State or
				  local governing body, or listed (or determined by the Secretary of the Interior
				  to be eligible to be listed) in The National Register of Historic
				  Places.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 233 - Minimum Insulation Standards For The Provision Of Gas And Electric Utility Service › Minimum Standards for New Dwellings › Section 233.2 - Applicability and compliance

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(a)
					 All new dwellings in the State of New York for which an application for a
					 building permit was made and plans were filed on or after January 1, 1979, and
					 all new dwellings within the State for which construction was begun on or after
					 January 1, 1979, will not be eligible for gas and electric service unless these
					 dwellings comply with the New York State Energy Conservation Construction Code.
					 Compliance with this code will be satisfied under any of the following
					 circumstances:
(1) a building permit is
					 obtained for the dwelling from a building code authority or similar authority
					 empowered by local law to issue building permits;
(2) an affirmation is given by the contractor
					 or builder on a certificate of compliance (see Appendix B-1 of this Title) that
					 the construction of the dwelling will comply with the Energy Conservation
					 Construction Code within 30 days after occupancy; or
(3) a modification or variance from the
					 requirements of the Energy Conservation Construction Code is issued by the
					 State Board of Review as constituted pursuant to the Executive Law.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 233 - Minimum Insulation Standards For The Provision Of Gas And Electric Utility Service › Minimum Standards for New Dwellings › Section 233.3 - Waivers

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For any dwelling subject to the requirements of section
						233.2(b) 
						of this Part, a waiver from these requirements may be granted by:
(a) the utility, when the overall heat loss
					 for the building envelope does not exceed the total heat loss which would
					 result from conformance to the individual requirements. The heat loss
					 calculations shall be certified by a licensed engineer or architect;
(b) the utility, if the applicant for service
					 can establish through two estimates, one of which may be a utility audit, that
					 the purchase price and installation charge (excluding financing charges) will
					 be greater than seven times the anticipated annual savings to be obtained,
					 based on the present cost of the fuel currently used in the dwelling;
(c) the Public Service Commission for just
					 cause, in unusual circumstances, if the applicant for gas or electric utility
					 service has been denied a waiver pursuant to subdivision (a) or (b) of this
					 section.
A copy of each variance granted or denied by the utility
						shall be made available to the commission, and each applicant denied a variance
						shall be promptly informed by the utility of the right to appeal to the
						commission.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 233 - Minimum Insulation Standards For The Provision Of Gas And Electric Utility Service › Minimum Standards for New Dwellings › Section 233.4 - Certificate of compliance

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(a) A
					 certificate of compliance (see Appendix B-1 of this Title), shall be used in
					 all areas of the State where no local authority exists, to assure compliance
					 with the insulation requirements of the Energy Conservation Construction
					 Code.
(b) Each certificate of
					 compliance shall be signed by the builder or contractor, and the owner shall
					 receive a copy of such certificate.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter III - GAS UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 233 - Minimum Insulation Standards For The Provision Of Gas And Electric Utility Service › Minimum Standards for New Dwellings › Section 233.5 - Compliance procedures

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(a) In
					 areas where there is no local building code authority, upon a complaint by a
					 dwelling owner or tenant concerning noncompliance with the provisions of
					 section
					 233.2 
					 of this Part, the utility will perform an onsite inspection to determine
					 conformance with the standards concerning roofs, walls, foundation walls,
					 floors, windows and doors. The result of this inspection will be provided in
					 writing to the owner (and tenant when applicable) of the building.
(b) Whenever the utility finds, as a result
					 of such inspection or notification by the local building code authority, more
					 than one outstanding complaint against any particular contractor, wherein a
					 dwelling constructed by such contractor or builder was found to be in
					 noncompliance with the applicable standards, the utility shall refuse to
					 provide gas or electric service to any construction site of that contractor or
					 builder until all existing violations are corrected. The utility shall
					 undertake random inspections of the future construction work of a past
					 noncomplying contractor or builder until such time as the utility is satisfied
					 that the applicable standards are being met.