Provides that in the case of any application for gas service to a building which is not supplied with gas, a utility corporation or municipality shall be obligated to provide gas service to such building.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8417
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 9, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. KRUEGER -- 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 the provision of
gas service to new customers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 31 of the public service law, as
2 added by chapter 713 of the laws of 1981, is amended and a new subdivi-
3 sion 4-a is added to read as follows:
4 4. In the case of any application for electric service to a building
5 which is not supplied with electricity [or gas], a utility corporation
6 or municipality shall be obligated to provide electric service to such a
7 building, provided however, that the commission may require applicants
8 for service to buildings located in excess of one hundred feet from [gas
9 or] electric transmission lines to pay or agree in writing to pay mate-
10 rial and installation costs relating to the applicant's proportion of
11 the pipe, conduit, duct or wire, or other facilities to be installed.
12 4-a. In the case of any application for gas service to a building
13 which is not supplied with gas, a utility corporation or municipality
14 shall be obligated to provide gas service to such building, provided
15 however, that the commission shall require applicants for gas service to
16 such building to pay or agree in writing to pay material and installa-
17 tion costs relating to the pipe or other facilities to be installed to
18 enable service to the applicant.
19 § 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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