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; and requires the consent of the property owner for entry upon residential property.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7535--A
IN SENATE
January 22, 2018
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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 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
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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