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.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A8888
SPONSOR: Simon TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the public service law, in relation to the provision of
gas service to new customers
PURPOSE:
The purpose of this bill is to remove the "100-foot rule" that requires
existing ratepayers to subsidize the cost of connecting new ratepayers
to the gas system.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section one amends subdivision 4 of section 31 of the public service law
to remove the requirement that the first 100 feet of a new gas
connection is paid for by the utility company and adds a new subdivision
4-a requiring applicants for gas service to receive service provided
that the applicant pays the installations cots.
Section two is the effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
Under existing law, a gas utility is required to pay for the costs of
the first 100 feet of pipes necessary to connect a new customer to the
gas system. The gas utility is allowed to recover these costs from their
ratepayers, which results in all gas customers subsidizing the
connection of new gas customers. This bill would not prevent applicants
for new gas service from connecting to the gas system but, would prevent
other ratepayers from paying for their connection to the system and
require new applicants to pay for their gas connection themselves.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
This is a new bill.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None to the State.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8888
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 10, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
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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