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 275.7 - Discontinuance of service to entire multiple dwellings

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) No gas corporation shall discontinue
				  service to an entire multiple dwelling (as defined in the Multiple Dwelling Law
				  or the Multiple Residence Law) where the owner, person, firm or corporation to
				  whom or which the last preceding bill has been rendered, or from whom or which
				  the gas corporation has received payment therefor, has failed to pay such
				  utility bills, until it has complied with the following procedure:
(1) The gas corporation must give 15 days'
				  written notice of its intention to so discontinue by personally serving such
				  notice on the owner of the premises affected or on the person, firm, or
				  corporation to whom or which the last preceding bill was rendered, or from whom
				  or which the utility has received payment therefor, and on the superintendent
				  or other person in charge of the building, if it can be readily ascertained
				  that there is such superintendent or other person in charge; or
(2) The gas corporation must give 18 days'
				  written notice to the owner, person, firm or corporation specified in paragraph
				  (1) of this subdivision if such notice is mailed in a postpaid wrapper to the
				  address of such persons, firm or corporation.
(3) In addition to the notice prescribed by
				  paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subdivision, 15 days' written notice shall be
				  posted in the public areas of such multiple dwelling, and 18 days' notice shall
				  be mailed to the "Occupant" of each unit in that multiple dwelling, to the
				  local health officer and director of the social services district for the
				  political subdivision in which the multiple dwelling is located; if the
				  multiple dwelling is located in a city or village, to the mayor thereof, or if
				  there be none, to the manager; or, if the multiple dwelling is located in a
				  town, then to the town supervisor; and to the county executive of the county in
				  which the multiple dwelling is located, or if there be none, then to the
				  chairman of such county's legislative body. Notice to mayors, managers, town
				  supervisors, county executives, and chairmen of county legislatures may be
				  mailed to the persons specified therein or to their designees. Notice to health
				  officers, directors of social services, mayors, managers, supervisors, county
				  executives and chairmen of county legislatures shall be repeated not more than
				  four working days nor less than two working days prior to such
				  discontinuance.
(4) Whenever a
				  notice of intention to discontinue gas service has been made pursuant to the
				  provisions of this section and obligations owed the gas corporation have been
				  satisfied, the gas corporation shall notify, in the same manner as it gave such
				  notice of intention, the occupant of each unit that the intention to
				  discontinue gas service no longer exists.