Authorizes gas corporations and electric corporations to purchase and sell generators for residential use and requires the public service commission to establish uniform methods of purchasing and regulating the sale, delivery and installation of the generators and billing of customers who purchase the generators.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5468
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 27, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. SCARBOROUGH -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to authorizing gas
corporations and electric corporations to purchase and sell generators
for residential use
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a new section
2 66-n to read as follows:
3 § 66-n. Purchase and sale of generators for residential use. The
4 commission shall authorize gas corporations and electric corporations to
5 purchase generators in bulk for the purpose of selling such generators
6 to residential customers of such gas corporations or electric corpo-
7 rations. The commission shall prescribe, by order, uniform methods of
8 purchasing generators by gas corporations and electric corporations and
9 of regulating the sale, delivery and installation of such generators and
10 billing of residential customers who purchase such generators from a gas
11 corporation or an electric corporation. Customers shall be permitted to
12 purchase generators, subject to availability, and to make payments
13 through an added monthly charge on their utility bill for a period of
14 time to be determined by the commission. The commission shall establish
15 guidelines for setting appropriate charges and fees.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05439-02-3
