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N.Y. Public Service Law § 1 Short title
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§ 1. Short title. This chapter shall be known as the "Public Service\nLaw." Reference in any law to the public service commission law shall\nmean the public service law, and amendments, in form, to the public\nservice commission law enacted by the legislature of nineteen hundred…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 10 Offices of commission; meeting; stationery, et cetera
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§ 10. Offices of commission; meeting; stationery, et cetera. The\nprincipal office of the public service commission shall be in the city\nof Albany, in rooms designated by the commissioner of general services.\nThe public service commission shall also maintain a branch office in…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 100 Transfer and ownership of stock
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§ 100. Transfer and ownership of stock. 1. No telegraph corporation or\ntelephone corporation, domestic or foreign, shall hereafter purchase or\nacquire, take or hold any part of the capital stock of any telegraph\ncorporation or telephone corporation organized or existing under…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 101 Authority to issue stock, bonds and other forms of indebtedness
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§ 101. Authority to issue stock, bonds and other forms of\nindebtedness. A telegraph or telephone corporation may, when authorized\nby the commission, issue stock, bonds, notes or other evidences of\nindebtedness payable at periods of more than twelve months after the\ndate ther…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 101-A Reorganization
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§ 101-a. Reorganization. 1. Reorganization of telegraph and telephone\ncorporations pursuant to sections ninety-six and ninety-seven of the\nstock corporation law and such other laws as may be enacted from time to\ntime shall be subject to the supervision and control of the comm…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 102 IntraLATA presubscribed interexchange carrier-change charge study
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§ 102. IntraLATA presubscribed interexchange carrier-change charge\nstudy. 1. As used in this section, the following terms have the\nfollowing meanings:\n (a) "Provider of telephone service" means a telephone corporation that\nprovides intraLATA or local exchange telephone servi…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 103 Commercial landlord-tenant relationship
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§ 103. Commercial landlord-tenant relationship. 1. No landlord of a\ncommercial property shall (a) interfere with the installation of\ntelephone corporation facilities upon such property or premises, except\nthat a landlord of a commercial property may require:\n (1) that the in…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 104 Fiber-based services
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§ 104. Fiber-based services. 1. Where a telephone line, as such term\nis defined in subdivision eighteen of section two of this chapter, or a\nportion of a telephone line, has previously been placed by a telephone\ncorporation in or on a building or other property of an owner ot…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 104-A Notice to customers on fiber optic-based telephone lines
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§ 104-a. Notice to customers on fiber optic-based telephone lines. 1.\nThe commission shall require each telephone corporation that provides\nlocal exchange service to provide a notice containing information to\ncustomers on the differences between copper-based telephone lines a…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 105 Purposes of article
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§ 105. Purposes of article. This article prescribes additional\nprovisions affecting two or more kinds of the public service regulated\nby this chapter and affecting the persons and corporations furnishing\nsuch service.\n
N.Y. Public Service Law § 106 Approval of loans
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§ 106. Approval of loans. Except with the consent and approval of the\npublic service commission first had and obtained, no public utility\nshall loan moneys, stocks, bonds, notes or other evidences of\nindebtedness, to any corporation, company, association, partnership or\nindi…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 107 Approval of the use of revenues
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§ 107. Approval of the use of revenues. 1. Except with the consent and\napproval of the commission first had and obtained, no public utility\nshall use revenues received from the rendition of public service within\nthe state for any purpose other than its operating, maintenance …
N.Y. Public Service Law § 108 Approval of dissolution and of certificates of merger or consolidation, certificates of amendment of certificates of incorporation, and r...
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§ 108. Approval of dissolution and of certificates of merger or\nconsolidation, certificates of amendment of certificates of\nincorporation, and restated certificates of incorporation of public\nutility corporations. 1. No public utility corporation shall deliver to\nthe departm…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 109 Appearances of municipal corporations
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§ 109. Appearances of municipal corporations. Each municipal\ncorporation shall have the right to appear as a party before the\ncommission or before any court in any action or proceeding involving\nrates, service or other matters affecting the municipal corporation or\nany of it…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 11 Quorum; powers of a commissioner
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§ 11. Quorum; powers of a commissioner. A majority of the duly\nappointed commissioners shall constitute a quorum and not less than a\nmajority of such commissioners concurring may transact any business,\nperform any duty or exercise any power of the commission. The commission\n…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 110 Control of holding companies and of transactions between affiliated interests
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§ 110. Control of holding companies and of transactions between\naffiliated interests. 1. The public service commission shall have\njurisdiction over holders of the voting capital stock of all public\nutility companies under the jurisdiction of the commission to such\nextent as …
N.Y. Public Service Law § 111 Additional information in annual reports; disclosure of stockholdings
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§ 111. Additional information in annual reports; disclosure of\nstockholdings. 1. Every annual report of any utility corporation\nreporting under this chapter to the public service commission shall\ncontain, in addition to any other information required to be included by\nor pur…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 111-A Additional information in annual reports; disclosure of compensation
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§ 111-a. Additional information in annual reports; disclosure of\ncompensation. 1. Every gas corporation, electric corporation, steam\ncorporation, and water-works corporation whose rates are regulated by\nthe commission, and having a gross annual operating revenue of more than\…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 112 Judicial enforcement of rate-fixing orders of the commission
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§ 112. Judicial enforcement of rate-fixing orders of the commission.\n1. When a suit is brought in the federal district court praying for an\ninterlocutory injunction to restrain the enforcement of an order of the\npublic service commission or transit commission fixing the maxim…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 112-A Appointment of temporary operator
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§ 112-a. Appointment of temporary operator. (a) The commission may\nappoint a temporary operator of a gas corporation with twenty thousand\nor fewer customers or water-works corporation with one thousand or fewer\ncustomers if the commission, after notice and an opportunity to b…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 113 Reparations and refunds
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§ 113. Reparations and refunds. 1. Whenever a public utility company,\non its own initiative, shall file with the commission a schedule stating\nan increased rate or charge, and the commission shall enter upon a\nhearing concerning the propriety of such increased rate or charge,…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 114 Temporary rates
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§ 114. Temporary rates. To facilitate prompt action by the commission\nin proceedings involving the reasonableness of the rates of any public\nutility and to avoid delay in any such rate proceeding, the commission\nis hereby authorized to require any public utility company to es…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 114-A Rates not to include cost of legislative lobbying
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* § 114-a. Rates not to include cost of legislative lobbying. In\ndetermining rates to be charged customers, the commission shall not\ninclude the cost of legislative lobbying on behalf of any public utility\nas part of any such utility's operational costs and the commission sha…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 115 Public letting of contracts
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§ 115. Public letting of contracts. The commission is hereby\nauthorized, whenever it is of opinion that the public interest so\nrequires, to direct any public utility subject to the jurisdiction of\nthe commission to award contracts or agreements for the construction,\nimprovem…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 116 Discontinuance of water service to multiple dwellings
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§ 116. Discontinuance of water service to multiple dwellings. 1.\nNotwithstanding any other provisions of law, no public utility company\nshall discontinue water service to an entire multiple dwelling (as\ndefined in the multiple dwelling law or the multiple residence law)\nloca…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 117 Consumer deposits
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§ 117. Consumer deposits. Except as the right to require deposits is\nfurther limited by section thirty-six of this chapter, a gas\ncorporation, an electric corporation, a gas and electric corporation, a\nwater corporation, a steam corporation, a telegraph corporation, a\nteleph…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 118 Payment to an authorized payment agency
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§ 118. Payment to an authorized payment agency. 1. In any case where a\npublic utility company or municipality rendering equivalent utility\nservices permits its customers to pay their bills to a payment agency\nauthorized by the corporation or the municipality for collection of…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 119 Reorganization of public utility corporations under the national bankruptcy act
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§ 119. Reorganization of public utility corporations under the\nnational bankruptcy act. Upon determining, after hearing and\ninvestigation, that the outstanding liabilities of a public utility\ncorporation exceed its assets and that the public interest requires that\nsuch corpo…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 119-A Attachments to utility poles; use of utility ducts, trenches and conduits
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§ 119-a. Attachments to utility poles; use of utility ducts, trenches\nand conduits. 1. The commission shall prescribe just and reasonable\nrates, terms and conditions for attachments to utility poles and the use\nof utility ducts, trenches and conduits. A just and reasonable ra…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 119-B Protection of underground facilities
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§ 119-b. Protection of underground facilities. 1. As used in this\nsection, the following terms shall have the following meanings:\n a. "Person" means any individual, firm, corporation, association or\npartnership, cooperative association, joint venture, joint stock\nassociation…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 119-C Tax reduction benefit to ratepayers
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§ 119-c. Tax reduction benefit to ratepayers. The commission shall\nprovide that any net decrease in a utility corporation's tax expense\nresulting from the amendments made to sections one hundred eighty-four,\none hundred eighty-six-a and one hundred eighty-six-e of the tax law…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 119-D Maintenance of utility poles
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§ 119-d. Maintenance of utility poles. On or before April first, two\nthousand twenty-four, the commission shall promulgate rules and\nregulations to require, in addition to other maintenance procedures, the\ntrimming of vines on utility poles throughout the state by the utility…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 119-E Utility pole attachment report
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§ 119-e. Utility pole attachment report. 1. All utility pole owners\nand attachers shall be required to submit an annual report on pole\nattachments. Such report shall include (a) the number of pole attachment\nrequests received; (b) for each request received: (i) the processing…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 12 Counsel to the commission; duties
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§ 12. Counsel to the commission; duties. It shall be the duty of\ncounsel to the commission, subject to the direction of the chairman, to\nrepresent and appear for the people of the state and the commission in\nall actions and proceedings involving any question under this chapte…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 120 Definitions
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§ 120. Definitions. Where used in this article, the following terms,\nunless the context otherwise requires, shall have the following\nmeanings.\n 1. "Municipality" means a county, city, town or village in the state.\n 2. "Major utility transmission facility" means: (a) an elect…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 121 Certificate of environmental compatibility and public need
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§ 121. Certificate of environmental compatibility and public need. 1.\nNo person shall, after July first, nineteen hundred seventy, commence\nthe preparation of the site for the construction of a major utility\ntransmission facility in the state without having first obtained a\n…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 121-A Procedures with respect to certain fuel gas transmission lines
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§ 121-a. Procedures with respect to certain fuel gas transmission\nlines. 1. All persons who intend to construct fuel gas transmission\nlines as described in this section shall file with the commission for\nits approval the standards and practices which will be applied to\nenvir…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 122 Application for a certificate
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§ 122. Application for a certificate. 1. An applicant for a\ncertificate shall file with the commission an application, in such form\nas the commission may prescribe, containing the following information:\n(a) the location of the site or right-of-way; (b) a description of the\nt…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 123 Hearing on application for certificate
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§ 123. Hearing on application for certificate. 1. Upon the receipt of\nan application with respect to an electric transmission line that\ncomplies with section one hundred twenty-two, the commission shall\npromptly fix a date for the commencement of a public hearing thereon not\…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 124 Parties to certification proceedings
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§ 124. Parties to certification proceedings. 1. The parties to the\ncertification proceedings shall include:\n (a) the applicant\n (b) the department of environmental conservation\n (c) the department of commerce\n (d) the secretary of state.\n (e) the department of agriculture …
N.Y. Public Service Law § 125 Conduct of the hearing
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§ 125. Conduct of the hearing. A record shall be made of the hearing\nand of all testimony taken and the cross-examinations thereon. The rules\nof evidence applicable to proceedings before a court shall not apply.\nThe commission may provide for the consolidation of the represen…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 126 The decision
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§ 126. The decision. 1. The commission shall render a decision upon\nthe record either granting or denying the application as filed or\ngranting it upon such terms, conditions, limitations or modifications of\nthe construction or operation of the facility as the commission may d…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 127 Opinion to be issued with decision
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§ 127. Opinion to be issued with decision. In rendering a decision on\nan application for a certificate, the commission may issue an opinion\nstating its reasons for the action taken. If the commission has found\nthat any local ordinance, law, resolution, regulation, or other ac…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 128 Judicial review
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§ 128. Judicial review. 1. Any party aggrieved by any order issued on\nan application for a certificate may apply for a rehearing under section\ntwenty-two within thirty days after issuance of the order and thereafter\nobtain judicial review of such order in a proceeding as prov…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 129 Jurisdiction of courts
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§ 129. Jurisdiction of courts. Except as expressly set forth in\nsection one hundred twenty-eight and except for review by the court of\nappeals of a decision of the appellate division of the supreme court as\nprovided for therein, no court of this state shall have jurisdiction …
N.Y. Public Service Law § 13 Expenses
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§ 13. Expenses. All officers, clerks, inspectors, experts and\nemployees of the commission shall receive the compensation fixed by the\nchairman of the commission within the amounts appropriated therefor by\nthe legislature. The commissioners and counsel to the commission may\nr…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 130 Powers of municipalities and state agencies
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§ 130. Powers of municipalities and state agencies. Notwithstanding\nany other provision of law, no state agency, municipality or any agency\nthereof may require any approval, consent, permit, certificate or other\ncondition for the construction or operation of a major facility …
N.Y. Public Service Law § 135-A Short title
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§ 135-a. Short title. This article shall be known as the "home\ninsulation and energy conservation act".\n
N.Y. Public Service Law § 135-B Definitions
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§ 135-b. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms\nshall have the following meanings:\n 1. "Commission" means the public service commission of the state of\nNew York.\n 2. "Utility" means an investor-owned gas or electrical corporation\nregulated by the commissi…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 135-C Home conservation plans; eligibility; approval by the commission
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§ 135-c. Home conservation plans; eligibility; approval by the\ncommission. 1. After hearing upon reasonable notice, the commission\nshall establish home conservation plans for each utility in accordance\nwith the provisions of this article. Such plans shall be open to\nparticip…