STATE OF NEW YORK
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6748
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
September 25, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to prohibiting util-
ities from imposing a moratorium on services in cities with a popu-
lation of two hundred thousand or more
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 65 of the public service law, as
2 amended by chapter 789 of the laws of 1930, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. Every gas corporation, every electric corporation and every munici-
5 pality shall furnish and provide such service, instrumentalities and
6 facilities as shall be safe and adequate and in all respects just and
7 reasonable. No gas corporation, electric corporation or municipality
8 shall impose a moratorium on such service in any city with a population
9 of two hundred thousand people or more. All charges made or demanded by
10 any such gas corporation, electric corporation or municipality for gas,
11 electricity or any service rendered or to be rendered, shall be just and
12 reasonable and not more than allowed by law or by order of the commis-
13 sion. Every unjust or unreasonable charge made or demanded for gas,
14 electricity or any such service, or in connection therewith, or in
15 excess of that allowed by law or by the order of the commission is
16 prohibited.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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