Bill Text: NJ A4290 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires electric public utility to notify property owner any time account for electric public utility service on owner's property is opened, closed, transferred, or altered.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-11 - Reported out of Assembly Committee, 2nd Reading [A4290 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-A4290-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 4290

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED OCTOBER 27, 2016

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  ELIZABETH MAHER MUOIO

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires electric public utility to notify property owner any time account for electric public utility service on owner's property is opened, closed, transferred, or altered.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning electric public utility service accounts and supplementing Title 48 of the Revised Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    a.  An electric public utility shall notify a property owner by electronic mail, postal mail, or telephone, as determined by the board, any time an account for electric public utility service on the owner's property is opened, closed, transferred, or altered.

     b.    As used in this section:

     "Board" and "electric public utility" shall have the same meaning as provided in section 3 of P.L.1999, c.23 (C.48:3-51).

 

     2.    This act shall take effect on the 90th day after the date of enactment.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires an electric public utility to notify a property owner by electronic mail, postal mail, or telephone, as determined by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, any time an account for electric public utility service on the owner's property is opened, closed, transferred, or altered.