New York Public Service Law Article 4 - PROVISIONS RELATING TO GAS AND ELECTRIC CORPORATIONS; REGULATION OF PRICE OF GAS AND ELECTRICITY
- 64 - Application of Article.
This article shall apply to the manufacture, conveying, transportation and furnishing of gas (natural or manufactured or mixture of both) for light, heat or power...
- 65 - Safe and Adequate Service; Just and Reasonable Charges; Unjust Discrimination; Unreasonable Preference; Protection of Privacy.
1. Every gas corporation, every electric corporation and every municipality shall furnish and provide such service, instrumentalities and facilities as shall be safe and adequate...
- 65-a - Notification to Social Services Officials.
The commission shall, to the extent not inconsistent with other requirements of law, establish requirements relating to the notification of an appropriate social services official...
- 65-b - Service to Persons Applying for or Receiving Public Assistance, Supplemental Security Income Benefits or Additional State Payments.
No gas corporation, electric corporation or municipality shall refuse to supply or to continue to supply utility services to any person who has applied for...
- 66 - General Powers of Commission in Respect to Gas and Electricity.
The commission shall: 1. Have general supervision of all gas corporations and electric corporations having authority under any general or special law or under any...
- 66-a - Conservation of Gas, Declaration of Policy, Delegation of Power.
1. It is hereby declared to be the policy of this state that when there develops in any area a situation under which a gas...
- 66-b - Continuation of Gas Service.
1. Notwithstanding the provisions of section sixty-six-a of this chapter, no gas customer shall be denied a continuation of gas service following the demolition and...
- 66-c - Conservation of Energy.
1. It is hereby declared to be the policy of this state that it is in the public interest to encourage, at rates just and...
- 66-d - Contract Carrier Authorization.
1. For purposes of this section the term natural gas shall mean natural gas produced within the state or transported within the state no matter...
- 66-e - Monitoring of Natural Gas Procurement.
1. The commission shall continue to monitor natural gas procurement contracts and practices of gas corporations and determine whether any of such practices or provisions...
- 66-f - Purchase and Procurement of Natural Gas At Lowest Available Price.
1. The commission shall have the authority to direct any gas corporation subject to the jurisdiction of the commission to purchase or procure natural gas...
- 66-g - Sale of Indigenous Natural Gas for Generation of Electricity.
1. The commission shall require an electric corporation to enter into long-term contracts to purchase or wheel electricity produced from indigenous natural gas supplies at...
- 66-h - Certain Electric Corporations; Payment Equivalent to Tax.
The commission shall require each electric corporation that purchases electricity from an energy business as defined in subdivision (c) of section three hundred one-i of...
- 66-j - Net Energy Metering for Residential Solar, Farm Waste, Non-Residential Solar Electric Generating Systems, Micro-Combined Heat and Power Generating Equipment, Fuel Cell Electric Generating Equipment, and Micro-Hydroelectric Generating Equipment.
1. Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Customer-generator" means: (i) a residential customer of an electric...
- 66-k - Allowance Credit Trading or Sales.
1. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "SO2" shall mean sulfur dioxide. (b) "SO2 allowance credit"...
- 66-l - Net Energy Metering for Residential, Farm Service and Non-Residential Wind Electric Generating Systems.
1. Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Customer-generator" means a residential customer, farm service customer or...
- 66-m - Green Jobs-Green New York On-Bill Recovery.
1.(a) The commission shall, within forty-five days of the effective date of this section, commence a proceeding to investigate the implementation by each combination electric...
- 66-n - Net Metering Study.
The commission shall conduct a study to analyze the economic and environmental benefits from and the economic cost burden, if any, of the net energy...
- 66-o - Electric Vehicle Charging Tariff.
1. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the term "eligible vehicle" shall mean and include a motor vehicle that: (a) has four wheels; (b) was...
- 67 - Inspection of Gas and Electric Meters.
1. The commission shall appoint inspectors of electric and gas meters whose duty it shall be, when required by the commission, to inspect, examine and...
- 67-a - Charges for Past Services.
1. A gas or electric corporation shall inspect and assure the accuracy of a metering device upon the request of any new commercial customer. 2....
- 68 - Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity.
1. Certificate required. No gas corporation or electric corporation shall begin construction of a gas plant or electric plant without first having obtained the permission...
- 68-a - Statements of Nature and Extent of Interests to Be Filed Upon Request.
Whenever any person or corporation signs or certifies any estimate, appraisal, report, or other statement, to be submitted to the public service commission in relation...
- 69 - Approval of Issues of Stock, Bonds and Other Forms of Indebtedness; Approval of Mergers or Consolidations.
A gas corporation or electric corporation organized or existing, or hereafter incorporated, under or by virtue of the laws of the state of New York,...
- 69-a - Reorganizations.
1. Reorganizations of gas corporations and electric corporations pursuant to sections ninety-six and ninety-seven of the stock corporation law and such other statutes as may...
- 70 - Transfer of Franchises or Stocks.
1. No gas corporation or electric corporation shall transfer or lease its franchise, works or system or any part of such franchise, works or system...
- 70-a - Street Lights.
1. Any municipality or other government entity proposing to acquire title to and transfer ownership of the complete system of street light luminaires or fixtures,...
- 71 - Complaints As to Quality and Price of Gas and Electricity; Investigation by Commission; Forms of Complaints.
Upon the complaint in writing of the mayor of a city, the trustees of a village, the town board of a town or the chief...
- 72 - Notice and Hearing; Order Fixing Price of Gas or Electricity or Requiring Improvement.
Before proceeding under a complaint presented as provided in section seventy-one, the commission shall cause notice of such complaint, and the purpose thereof, to be...
- 72-a - Increased Fuel Costs.
Every gas and electric corporation subject to the jurisdiction of the commission shall file with the commission, on a monthly basis, the following information regarding...
- 74 - Energy Storage Deployment Program.
1. (a) As used in this section "qualified energy storage system" shall mean commercially available technology that is capable of absorbing energy, storing it for...
- 75 - Defense in Case of Excessive Charges for Gas or Electricity.
If it be alleged and established in an action brought in any court for the collection of any charge for gas or electricity, that a...
- 76 - Rates Charged Veteran Organizations, Religious Bodies and Community Residences.
No gas corporation, electric corporation or municipality shall, directly or indirectly, charge, demand, collect or receive from any post or hall owned or leased by...
- 77 - Powers of Local Officers.
If in any city of the first or second class there now exists or shall hereafter be created a board, body or officer having jurisdiction...
Last modified: February 3, 2019