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
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.
