Bill Text: NY S02620 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting utilities from imposing a moratorium on services in cities with a population of two hundred thousand or more.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S02620 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02620-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2620

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. PARKER, MYRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommu-
          nications

        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to prohibiting util-
          ities  from  imposing  a moratorium on services in cities with a popu-
          lation of two hundred thousand or more

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 65 of the public service law, as
     2  amended by chapter 789 of the laws  of  1930,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1. Every gas corporation, every electric corporation and every munici-
     5  pality    shall  furnish and provide such service, instrumentalities and
     6  facilities as shall be safe and adequate and in all  respects  just  and
     7  reasonable.  No  gas  corporation,  electric corporation or municipality
     8  shall impose a moratorium on such service in any city with a  population
     9  of  two hundred thousand people or more. All charges made or demanded by
    10  any such gas corporation, electric corporation or municipality for  gas,
    11  electricity or any service rendered or to be rendered, shall be just and
    12  reasonable  and  not more than allowed by law or by order of the commis-
    13  sion. Every unjust or unreasonable charge  made  or  demanded  for  gas,
    14  electricity  or  any  such  service,  or  in connection therewith, or in
    15  excess of that allowed by law or by  the  order  of  the  commission  is
    16  prohibited.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06406-01-3