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Assembly Bill A1877

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires inspection and regulation of all electric and gas meters that measure usage of any end use customer of electricity or gas services

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2015-A1877 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S577
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง67, Pub Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A186, S2348
2011-2012: A41, S1511
2013-2014: A50, S221
2017-2018: A1702, S1845

2015-A1877 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires inspection and regulation of all electric and gas meters that measure usage of any end use customer of electricity or gas services by the public service commission.

2015-A1877 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1877

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 13, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. HEVESI, O'DONNELL, DINOWITZ, GOTTFRIED, COLTON,
  JAFFEE, MOYA, ROSENTHAL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. AUBRY, BREN-
  NAN, FARRELL, GLICK, SCHIMEL -- read once and referred to the  Commit-
  tee on Energy

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  service  law,  in relation to requiring
  inspection and regulation of all electric and gas meters that  measure
  usage  of  any  end use customer of electricity or gas services by the
  public service commission

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

  Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 67 of the public service law, as
amended by chapter 446 of the laws  of  1972,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  1.  The commission shall appoint inspectors of electric and gas meters
WHICH FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION SHALL MEAN ALL ELECTRIC  AND  GAS
METERS  THAT MEASURE USAGE OF ANY END USE CUSTOMER OF ELECTRICITY OR GAS
SERVICES whose duty it shall be, when required  by  the  commission,  to
inspect,  examine and ascertain the accuracy of any and all electric and
gas meters used or intended to be used for  measuring  and  ascertaining
the  quantity  of  electric  current or gas furnished for light, heat or
power by any person, corporation or municipality to or for  the  use  of
any  person  or  corporation,  and to inspect, examine and ascertain the
accuracy of all apparatus for testing and proving the accuracy of  elec-
tric  and  gas  meters,  and  when found to be or made to be correct the
inspector shall stamp or mark all such meters and  apparatus  with  some
suitable  device,  which  device  shall be recorded in the office of the
secretary of state.    No  corporation,  person  or  municipality  shall
furnish,  set  or put in use any electric or gas meter the type of which
shall not have been approved by the commission.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00977-01-5

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