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                                  4925

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               May 1, 2013
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Introduced  by  Sen. MARTINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
  cations

AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to filing complaints
  with the public service commission

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 71 of the public service law, as amended by section
48 of part A of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, is amended  to  read  as
follows:
  S 71. Complaints  as  to  quality  and  price  of gas and electricity;
investigation by commission; forms of complaints. Upon the complaint  in
writing  of  the  mayor  of  a city, the trustees of a village, the town
board of a town or the chief executive officer or the  legislative  body
of  a  county in which a person or corporation is authorized to manufac-
ture, convey, transport, sell or supply gas  or  electricity  for  heat,
light  or power, or upon the complaint in writing of not less than twen-
ty-five customers or purchasers of such gas or electricity, or upon  the
complaint  in writing of the department of state, or upon a complaint of
a gas corporation or electrical corporation  supplying  or  transmitting
said gas or electricity, as to the illuminating or heating power, purity
or  pressure or the rates, charges or classifications of service of gas,
the efficiency of the electric incandescent lamp supply, the voltage  of
the  current  supplied for light, heat or power, or the rates charged or
classification of service of electricity  sold  and  delivered  in  such
municipality,  OR AS TO THE EXTENT OR DURATION OF A DISRUPTION IN GAS OR
ELECTRICITY SERVICE, the commission shall investigate as  to  the  cause
for  such complaint. When such complaint is made, the commission may, by
its agents, examiners and inspectors, inspect the works, system,  plant,
devices,  appliances  and  methods used by such person or corporation in
manufacturing, transmitting and supplying such gas or  electricity,  and

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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may examine or cause to be examined the books and papers of such person,
or  corporation  pertaining  to  the manufacture, sale, transmitting and
supplying  of  such  gas  or  electricity.  The  form  and  contents  of
complaints  made  as provided in this section shall be prescribed by the
commission. Such complaints shall be signed by the officers, or  by  the
customers,  purchasers or subscribers making them, who must add to their
signatures their places of residence, by street and number, if any.  THE
COMMISSION SHALL PUBLISH THE FORM AND INSTRUCTIONS  FOR  COMPLETING  THE
FORM ON THE COMMISSION'S WEBSITE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.