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

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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-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           328

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by Sens. PERSAUD, GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

        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 or reasonably should  know  that
     9  such  gas  meter  was  unlawfully  installed. A gas meter is  unlawfully
    10  installed when it is installed by any person other than a person  acting
    11  on  behalf  of  a utility corporation subject to the jurisdiction of the
    12  public service commission, unless such person has received a  permit  to
    13  install the gas meter 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.
                                                                   LBD02833-01-1