STATE OF NEW YORK
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1957--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 18, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to unlawfully installing a
gas meter
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 270.40 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 270.40 Unlawfully installing a gas meter.
4 1. As used in this section "gas meter" means any gas meter that meas-
5 ures usage of any end use customer of gas services.
6 2. A person is guilty of unlawfully installing a gas meter when he or
7 she installs the gas meter or is the owner of the premises where the
8 meter is unlawfully installed and knows or reasonably should know that
9 such gas meter was unlawfully installed. A gas meter is unlawfully
10 installed when it is installed by any person other than a person acting
11 on behalf of a utility corporation subject to the jurisdiction of the
12 public service commission, unless such person has received a permit to
13 install the gas meter from the appropriate permitting authority.
14 Unlawfully installing a gas meter is a class B misdemeanor.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00862-03-9
