Bill Text: NJ A705 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Prohibits public utilities from recovering certain charges from customers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-27 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Telecommunications and Utilities Committee [A705 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-A705-Introduced.html

ASSEMBLY, No. 705

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2016 SESSION

 


 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  JOHN DIMAIO

District 23 (Hunterdon, Somerset and Warren)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Prohibits public utilities from recovering certain charges from customers.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

  


An Act concerning the recovery by public utilities of certain charges for utility service and supplementing Title 48 of the Revised Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    Notwithstanding any law, rule, regulation, or order to the contrary, a public utility is prohibited from recovering any underpayments for utility service from a customer, when the underpayments are attributable to malfunctions of a customer's utility meter or equipment related to the utility meter including, but not limited to, electronic meter transmitting devices, if the malfunctions occurred two years or more prior to the date of the public utility's initial attempt to collect the underpayment from a customer.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill prohibits any public utility from recovering underpayments for utility service from a customer, when the underpayments are caused by malfunctions of a customer's utility meter or equipment related thereto, including, but not limited to, electronic meter transmitting devices, if the malfunctions occurred two or more years prior to the date on which the utility initially attempts to collect the underpayment from a customer.

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