Bill Text: NY S05346 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to unlawfully installing gas meters; makes it a class B misdemeanor.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-05-01 - referred to codes [S05346 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S05346-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5346--A Cal. No. 1032 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 22, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PERSAUD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes -- reported favora- bly 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 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. LBD09292-02-7
