Bill Text: NY S01054 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to unlawfully installing a gas meter; makes it a class B misdemeanor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-02-10 - referred to codes [S01054 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S01054-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1054--A
            Cal. No. 210

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 10, 2019
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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  --
          reported  favorably  from  said committee, ordered to first and second
          report, ordered to a 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 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.
                                                                   LBD00862-02-9