Bill Text: NY S00328 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 328 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Makes it a class B misdemeanor for any person other than a person acting on behalf of a utility corporation to unlawfully install a gas meter without a permit.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-07-16 - SIGNED CHAP.274 [S00328 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S00328-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         328--A
            Cal. No. 98

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. PERSAUD, GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, and when printed to be committed to  the  Committee  on  Codes  --
          reported  favorably  from  said committee, ordered to first and second
          report, ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and delivered  to
          the  Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to third reading,
          amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place  in  the  order  of
          third reading

        AN  ACT  to  amend the penal law, in relation to unlawfully installing a
          gas meter

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

     1    Section  1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 270.40 to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 270.40 Unlawfully installing a gas meter.
     4    1. As used in this section "gas meter" means any gas meter that  meas-
     5  ures usage of any end use customer of gas services.
     6    2.  A person is guilty of unlawfully installing a gas meter when he or
     7  she installs the gas  meter or is the owner of the  premises  where  the
     8  meter  is  unlawfully installed and knows that such gas meter was unlaw-
     9  fully installed. A gas  meter  is    unlawfully  installed  when  it  is
    10  installed by any person other than a person acting on behalf of a utili-
    11  ty corporation subject to the jurisdiction of the public service commis-
    12  sion,  unless such person has received a permit to install the gas meter
    13  from the appropriate permitting authority.
    14    Unlawfully installing a gas meter is a class B misdemeanor.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


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