Requires inspection and regulation of all electric and gas meters that measure usage of any end use customer of electricity or gas services by the public service commission.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1845
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 11, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. SQUADRON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
cations
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring
inspection and regulation of all electric and gas meters that measure
usage of any end use customer of electricity or gas services by the
public service commission
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 67 of the public service law, as
2 amended by chapter 446 of the laws of 1972, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. The commission shall appoint inspectors of electric and gas meters
5 which for the purposes of this section shall mean all electric and gas
6 meters that measure usage of any end use customer of electricity or gas
7 services whose duty it shall be, when required by the commission, to
8 inspect, examine and ascertain the accuracy of any and all electric and
9 gas meters used or intended to be used for measuring and ascertaining
10 the quantity of electric current or gas furnished for light, heat or
11 power by any person, corporation or municipality to or for the use of
12 any person or corporation, and to inspect, examine and ascertain the
13 accuracy of all apparatus for testing and proving the accuracy of elec-
14 tric and gas meters, and when found to be or made to be correct the
15 inspector shall stamp or mark all such meters and apparatus with some
16 suitable device, which device shall be recorded in the office of the
17 secretary of state. No corporation, person or municipality shall
18 furnish, set or put in use any electric or gas meter the type of which
19 shall not have been approved by the commission.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
21 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
22 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
23 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are
24 authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before such
25 effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02370-01-7
