Prohibits the monitoring, collection, recording or storing of data from gas and electric meters any more frequently than on a monthly or billing cycle basis, unless the express written consent of the consumer has been provided; requires the consent of the property owner for entry upon residential property.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4612
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 13, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- 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 prohibiting the
monitoring of natural gas or electricity meters more frequently than
on a monthly or billing cycle basis and entry upon residential proper-
ty
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 65 of the public service law is amended by adding
2 two new subdivisions 5-a and 5-b to read as follows:
3 5-a. No gas corporation, electric corporation or municipality shall,
4 without the express written consent of the consumer, monitor, record,
5 collect or store data from any meter or apparatus which provides such
6 corporation or municipality with a measure of the use of natural gas or
7 electricity for any period of time less than one month or the billing
8 cycle, whichever shall be greater. No fee or rate fee shall be charged
9 to those consumers who withhold such consent.
10 5-b. No gas corporation, electric corporation or municipality shall
11 enter a residential property without the consent of the owner thereof,
12 except when there is an emergency, or imminent or potential harm to
13 persons or property.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
15 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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