Assembly Bill A8868

                             
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                                   8868
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 9, 2025
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 Introduced  by M. of A. HEASTIE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Energy
 
 AN ACT to amend the public  service  law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting
   service  charges  by gas companies for repair, inspection, maintenance
   or remedies of damage
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  6  of  section 65 of the public service law,
 subdivision 6 as amended by chapter 204 of the laws of 2010,  paragraphs
 (c)  and  (d) as amended by and paragraph (e) as added by chapter 375 of
 the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   6. Service charges prohibited. (A) Every gas corporation shall  charge
 for gas supplied a fair and reasonable price.
   (B)  No  such corporation shall make or impose an additional charge or
 fee for service, USE, or for the installation,  REPAIR,  INSPECTION,  OR
 MAINTENANCE  of  apparatus  or  [the  use of apparatus installed, except
 that] ANY NECESSARY REPAIRS OR REMEDIES OF DAMAGE TO  PERSONAL  PROPERTY
 THEREFROM.
   (C) SUCH CORPORATION MAY MAKE OR IMPOSE a charge [may be made]:
   [(a)]  (I)  where  entry,  inspection  or examination as authorized by
 subdivision nine of this section is denied;
   [(b)] (II) for reconnecting the service to a person or corporation  if
 the  service  to such person or corporation was disconnected, in accord-
 ance with applicable legal requirements, for non-payment  of  bills  for
 service;
   [(b-1)]  (III)  for  expenses reasonably incurred as determined by the
 commission in cases of  meter  tampering  and  theft  of  service.  Such
 expenses  shall  include, but not be limited to, the cost of investigat-
 ing, repairing and replacing meters and pipes, and the cost of moving  a
 meter and installing it in a secure location;

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   [(c)]  (IV)  for  a  remote  meter reading device upon the request and
 consent of the customer;
   [(d)]  (V)  for  installation  of capital improvements and fixtures to
 promote energy efficiency upon the request and consent of the  customer,
 including  but  not limited to the performance of qualified energy effi-
 ciency services for customers participating in green jobs-green New York
 on-bill recovery pursuant to section sixty-six-m of this article; or
   [(e)] (VI) for the provision of thermal energy service.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.