Bill Text: NY S06748 | 2019-2020 | 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 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S06748 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06748-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6748

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                   September 25, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        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.
                                                                   LBD13861-01-9