STATE OF NEW YORK
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4370
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 24, 2013
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Introduced by Sens. MAZIARZ, RITCHIE -- (at request of the Department of
Public Service) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to
be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommunications
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to electronic
service of orders
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 23 of the public service law, as
2 amended by chapter 310 of the laws of 1974, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. Every order of the commission shall be served upon every person or
5 corporation to be affected thereby by electronic service in a manner and
6 format provided for in regulations established by the commission or
7 alternatively, if non-electronic service is requested by such person or
8 corporation, either by personal delivery of a copy thereof[;], or by the
9 mailing of a copy thereof, in a sealed package with postage prepaid, to
10 the person to be affected thereby or, in the case of a corporation, to
11 any officer or agent thereof upon whom a summons may be served in
12 accordance with the provisions of the civil practice law and rules. The
13 commission shall provide, upon request, a certified copy thereof or a
14 copy thereof bearing the seal of the commission. Within a time speci-
15 fied in the order of the commission every person and corporation upon
16 whom it is served must if so required in the order notify the commis-
17 sion, in writing, whether the terms of the order are accepted and will
18 be obeyed and in the case of a corporation such notification shall be
19 signed and acknowledged by a person or officer duly authorized by the
20 corporation to execute such acceptance and agreement. Every order of the
21 commission shall take effect at a time therein specified and shall
22 continue in force either for a period which may be designated therein or
23 until changed or abrogated by the commission, unless such order be unau-
24 thorized by this chapter or any other act or be in violation of a
25 provision of the constitution of the state or of the United States.
26 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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