Authorizes tenants to request the installation of smart or advanced meters where the building they occupy is being converted to an electric or gas meter that measures usage of any end-use customer of electricity or gas services.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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178--A
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 9, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Energy -- recommitted to the Committee on Energy in accordance with
Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the energy law, in relation to the installation of smart
or advanced meters
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The energy law is amended by adding a new article 23 to
2 read as follows:
3 ARTICLE 23
4 RESIDENTIAL ENERGY
5 Section 23-101. Definitions.
6 23-102. Smart or advanced meters.
7 § 23-101. Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following
8 words and phrases shall have the following meanings:
9 1. "Master meter." A meter that measures energy usage in a building
10 occupied by more than one tenant using a common utility meter.
11 2. "Smart meters." Meters that record electrical consumption in real-
12 time or over short intervals and communicate such information to the
13 utility through a two-way information exchange.
14 § 23-102. Smart or advanced meters. 1. Tenants of residential rental
15 buildings may request that a smart or advanced meter be installed in
16 cases where the building they occupy is being converted from a master
17 meter to an electric or gas meter that measures usage of any end-use
18 customer of electricity or gas services.
19 2. Where a tenant requests to have a smart or advanced meter installed
20 as provided in subdivision one of this section, the landlord/owner shall
21 install such meter and the tenant shall bear any costs associated with
22 the purchase and installation of the advanced or smart meter that are in
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 excess of costs associated with the purchase and installation of the
2 electric or gas meter originally proposed to be used in the conversion
3 from the master meter.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
