Prohibits the commission from making a regulation or allowing a tariff that imposes a fee, surcharge, cost or creates a cost differential for a customer for having an analog meter, digital meter, automated meter reading equipped meter, advanced metering infrastructure equipped meter or manual meter so long as such customer provides access and allows for metering in compliance with the rules, regulations and tariffs as the commission may impose.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6796
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
October 23, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. MAYER -- 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
charging different rates based upon the type of meter a customer uses
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 39 of the public service law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
3 5. A utility corporation or municipality shall not impose different
4 rates, charges, price differentials or fees based upon the type of meter
5 that a customer uses. The commission shall make no regulation and allow
6 no tariff that shall impose a fee, surcharge, cost or creates a cost
7 differential for a customer for having an analog meter, digital meter,
8 automated meter reading equipped meter, advanced metering infrastructure
9 equipped meter or manual meter so long as such customer provides access
10 and allows for metering in compliance with the rules, regulations and
11 tariffs as the commission may impose.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
13 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13589-02-9
