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

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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-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1054
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 10, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen. PERSAUD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to unlawfully installing  gas
          meters
          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 gas meters.
     4    1.  As  used  in  this  section "gas meters" means all gas meters that
     5  measure usage of any end use customer of gas services.
     6    2. A person is guilty of unlawfully installing gas meters when  he  or
     7  she  installs  the  gas  meters;  is the owner of the premises where the
     8  meters are unlawfully installed;  or  otherwise  knows  the  meters  are
     9  unlawfully  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 gas meters 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.
                                                                   LBD00862-01-9