Bill Text: NY A05825 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires all new residential and commercial units in Suffolk and Nassau counties, including all structures that have realized repairs or improvements that are equal to or greater than fifty percent of the structure's value, to install underground service drops at such locations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A05825 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05825-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5825

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. E. BROWN, DeSTEFANO, FITZPATRICK, BENDETT, GRAY,
          CURRAN, GANDOLFO, MAHER, K. BROWN, MIKULIN -- read once  and  referred
          to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to underground elec-
          trical services in Suffolk and Nassau counties

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a  new  section
     2  54 to read as follows:
     3    § 54. Underground electrical wires. 1. All new residential and commer-
     4  cial units in Suffolk and Nassau counties, including all structures that
     5  have  realized repairs or improvements that are equal to or greater than
     6  fifty percent of the structure's value, shall  be  required  to  install
     7  underground  service drops at such locations. All services shall be pole
     8  to meter in existing overhead pole locations and pad mount  transformers
     9  from  pad  to meter in new developments of single-family homes of twenty
    10  units or greater.
    11    2. For the purposes of this section, the  term  "service  drop"  shall
    12  mean  an overhead power connection from the utility lines to the service
    13  entrance.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    15  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    16  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    17  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
    18  completed on or before such effective date.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09791-01-3