Bill Text: NY A01957 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to unlawfully installing a gas meter; makes it a class B misdemeanor.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A01957 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A01957-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1957--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 18, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee 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. LBD00862-03-9