New York Public Service Law Article 1 - THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE

• 1 - Short Title.
  This chapter shall be known as the "Public Service Law." Reference in any law to the public service commission law shall mean the public service...
• 2 - Definitions.
  1. The term "department" when used in this chapter, means the department of public service, and the term "commission," means the public service commission. 2....
• 3 - Department of Public Service.
  There shall be in the state government a department of public service. The chairman of the public service commission shall be the chief executive officer...
• 3-a - Transfer of Lands.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any land, property, right, easement or fee under the jurisdiction of the commission acquired in the name of the...
• 3-b - Long Island Office of the Department.
  1. There is hereby established in the department an office to review and make recommendations with respect to the operations and terms and conditions of...
• 4 - The Public Service Commission.
  1. There shall be in the department of public service a public service commission, which shall possess the powers and duties hereinafter specified, and also...
• 4-b - Removals.
  The governor may remove any public service commissioner, now in office or hereafter appointed, for inefficiency, neglect of duty or misconduct in office, giving him...
• 5 - Jurisdiction, Powers and Duties of Public Service Commission.
  1. The jurisdiction, supervision, powers and duties of the public service commission shall extend under this chapter: b. To the manufacture, conveying, transportation, sale or...
• 5-b - Corporations Subject to Chapter Although Not Transacting Business.
  Corporations formed to acquire property or to transact business which would be subject to the provisions of this chapter, and corporations possessing franchises for any...
• 5-e - Jurisdiction of Commission Over Certain Corporations, Their Operations and Facilities.
  1. The commission shall have no jurisdiction, supervision, powers or duties with respect to any corporation which is owned or controlled in whole or in...
• 7 - Organization and Records; Minutes As Evidence; Destruction of Certain Records.
  1. The commission shall have a secretary and assistant secretaries to be appointed by the chairman. It shall be the duty of the secretary to...
• 8 - Additional Officers and Employees.
  The chairman shall have power to employ such officers, clerks, inspectors, experts and employees, and to make such contracts for special services as he may...
• 9 - Oath of Office; Eligibility of Commissioners and Officers.
  Each commissioner and each person appointed to office by the chairman shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe the constitutional...
• 10 - Offices of Commission; Meeting; Stationery, et Cetera.
  The principal office of the public service commission shall be in the city of Albany, in rooms designated by the commissioner of general services. The...
• 11 - Quorum; Powers of a Commissioner.
  A majority of the duly appointed commissioners shall constitute a quorum and not less than a majority of such commissioners concurring may transact any business,...
• 12 - Counsel to the Commission; Duties.
  It shall be the duty of counsel to the commission, subject to the direction of the chairman, to represent and appear for the people of...
• 13 - Expenses.
  All officers, clerks, inspectors, experts and employees of the commission shall receive the compensation fixed by the chairman of the commission within the amounts appropriated...
• 14 - Payment of Salaries and Expenses.
  All salaries and expenses of the public service commission shall be paid monthly from the state treasury upon the audit and warrant of the comptroller...
• 15 - Certain Acts Prohibited.
  Every commissioner, and every person employed or appointed to office in the department is hereby forbidden and prohibited to solicit, suggest, request or recommend, directly...
• 16 - Reports of Commission.
  1. All proceedings of the commission and all documents and records in its possession shall be public records. 2. The commission shall conduct a hearing...
• 17 - Certified Copies of Papers Filed to Be Evidence.
  Copies of all official documents and orders filed or deposited according to law in the office of the commission, certified by a commissioner or by...
• 18-a - Costs and Expenses of the Commission and Department and the Assessment of Such Costs and Expenses.
  1. All costs and expenses of the department and commission shall be paid pursuant to appropriation on the certification of the chairman of the department...
• 18-c - Refunds by the Commission.
  Whenever it appears that any person, firm, corporation or municipal corporation, has paid to the commission fees or other charges in excess of the amount...
• 19 - Attendance of Witnesses and Their Fees.
  1. The commission shall have power to issue subpoenas and subpoena duces tecum. All subpoenas shall be signed and issued by a commissioner, by an...
• 20 - Practice Before the Commission; Immunity of Witnesses.
  1. All hearings before the commission or a commissioner, or an officer or employee specially authorized to conduct an investigation or hearing, shall be governed...
• 21 - Court Proceedings; Preferences.
  All actions and proceedings under this chapter, and all actions and proceedings commenced or prosecuted by order of the commission, and all actions and proceedings...
• 22 - Rehearing Before Commission.
  After an order has been made by the commission any corporation or person interested therein shall have the right to apply for a rehearing in...
• 23 - Service and Effect of Orders; Stay.
  1. Every order of the commission shall be served upon every person or corporation to be affected thereby by electronic service in a manner and...
• 24 - Action to Recover Penalties or Forfeitures.
  An action to recover a penalty or a forfeiture under this chapter or to enforce the powers of the commission may be brought in any...
• 24-a - Notice to Be Given to Department of State Prior to Rate Increase.
  24-a. Notice to be given to department of state prior to rate increase. 1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent general, special or local law or rule or...
• 24-b - Notice to Be Given Long Island Power Authority Prior to Rate Increase.
  1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent general, special or local law or rule or regulation to the contrary, the commission shall to the extent the Long Island...
• 25 - Penalties.
  1. Every public utility company, corporation or person and the officers, agents and employees thereof shall obey and comply with every provision of this chapter...
• 25-a - Combination Gas and Electric Corporations; Administrative Sanctions; Recovery of Penalties.
  Notwithstanding sections twenty-four and twenty-five of this article: 1. Every combination gas and electric corporation and the officers thereof shall adhere to every provision of...
• 26 - Enforcement Proceedings.
  Whenever the commission shall be of the opinion that a public utility company, corporation or person and the officers, agents or employees thereof is failing...
• 27 - Public Availability of Certain Competitive Requests for Proposals.
  Any competitive requests for proposals relating to the generation of electricity, initiated as part of a proceeding before the commission and issued by any electric...

Last modified: February 3, 2019