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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 Law." Reference in any law to the public service commission law shall mean the public service law, and amendments, in form, to the public service commission law enacted by the legislature of nineteen hundred th…
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 principal office of the public service commission shall be in the city of Albany, in rooms designated by the commissioner of general services. The public service commission shall also maintain a branch office in th…
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 telephone corporation, domestic or foreign, shall hereafter purchase or acquire, take or hold any part of the capital stock of any telegraph corporation or telephone corporation organized or existing under th…
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 indebtedness. A telegraph or telephone corporation may, when authorized by the commission, issue stock, bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness payable at periods of more than twelve months after the date thereof,…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 101-A Reorganization
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§ 101-a. Reorganization. 1. Reorganization of telegraph and telephone corporations pursuant to sections ninety-six and ninety-seven of the stock corporation law and such other laws as may be enacted from time to time shall be subject to the supervision and control of the commiss…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 102 IntraLATA presubscribed interexchange carrier-change charge study
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§ 102. IntraLATA presubscribed interexchange carrier-change charge study. 1. As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Provider of telephone service" means a telephone corporation that provides intraLATA or local exchange telephone service to…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 103 Commercial landlord-tenant relationship
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§ 103. Commercial landlord-tenant relationship. 1. No landlord of a commercial property shall (a) interfere with the installation of telephone corporation facilities upon such property or premises, except that a landlord of a commercial property may require: (1) that the install…
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 is defined in subdivision eighteen of section two of this chapter, or a portion of a telephone line, has previously been placed by a telephone corporation in or on a building or other property of an owner other…
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. The commission shall require each telephone corporation that provides local exchange service to provide a notice containing information to customers on the differences between copper-based telephone lines and …
N.Y. Public Service Law § 105 Purposes of article
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§ 105. Purposes of article. This article prescribes additional provisions affecting two or more kinds of the public service regulated by this chapter and affecting the persons and corporations furnishing such service.
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 public service commission first had and obtained, no public utility shall loan moneys, stocks, bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness, to any corporation, company, association, partnership or individu…
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 approval of the commission first had and obtained, no public utility shall use revenues received from the rendition of public service within the state for any purpose other than its operating, maintenance and…
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 consolidation, certificates of amendment of certificates of incorporation, and restated certificates of incorporation of public utility corporations. 1. No public utility corporation shall deliver to the department …
N.Y. Public Service Law § 109 Appearances of municipal corporations
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§ 109. Appearances of municipal corporations. Each municipal corporation shall have the right to appear as a party before the commission or before any court in any action or proceeding involving rates, service or other matters affecting the municipal corporation or any of its re…
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 appointed commissioners shall constitute a quorum and not less than a majority of such commissioners concurring may transact any business, perform any duty or exercise any power of the commission. The commission may …
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 affiliated interests. 1. The public service commission shall have jurisdiction over holders of the voting capital stock of all public utility companies under the jurisdiction of the commission to such extent as may …
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 stockholdings. 1. Every annual report of any utility corporation reporting under this chapter to the public service commission shall contain, in addition to any other information required to be included by or pursuan…
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 compensation. 1. Every gas corporation, electric corporation, steam corporation, and water-works corporation whose rates are regulated by the commission, and having a gross annual operating revenue of more than one…
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. 1. When a suit is brought in the federal district court praying for an interlocutory injunction to restrain the enforcement of an order of the public service commission or transit commission fixing the maximum …
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 appoint a temporary operator of a gas corporation with twenty thousand or fewer customers or water-works corporation with one thousand or fewer customers if the commission, after notice and an opportunity to be h…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 113 Reparations and refunds
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§ 113. Reparations and refunds. 1. Whenever a public utility company, on its own initiative, shall file with the commission a schedule stating an increased rate or charge, and the commission shall enter upon a hearing concerning the propriety of such increased rate or charge, th…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 114 Temporary rates
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§ 114. Temporary rates. To facilitate prompt action by the commission in proceedings involving the reasonableness of the rates of any public utility and to avoid delay in any such rate proceeding, the commission is hereby authorized to require any public utility company to estab…
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 determining rates to be charged customers, the commission shall not include the cost of legislative lobbying on behalf of any public utility as part of any such utility's operational costs and the commission shall …
N.Y. Public Service Law § 115 Public letting of contracts
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§ 115. Public letting of contracts. The commission is hereby authorized, whenever it is of opinion that the public interest so requires, to direct any public utility subject to the jurisdiction of the commission to award contracts or agreements for the construction, improvement …
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. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, no public utility company shall discontinue water service to an entire multiple dwelling (as defined in the multiple dwelling law or the multiple residence law) located …
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 public utility company or municipality rendering equivalent utility services permits its customers to pay their bills to a payment agency authorized by the corporation or the municipality for collection of bi…
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 national bankruptcy act. Upon determining, after hearing and investigation, that the outstanding liabilities of a public utility corporation exceed its assets and that the public interest requires that such corporati…
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 and conduits. 1. The commission shall prescribe just and reasonable rates, terms and conditions for attachments to utility poles and the use of utility ducts, trenches and conduits. A just and reasonable rate …
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 section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: a. "Person" means any individual, firm, corporation, association or partnership, cooperative association, joint venture, joint stock association, bus…
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 provide that any net decrease in a utility corporation's tax expense resulting from the amendments made to sections one hundred eighty-four, one hundred eighty-six-a and one hundred eighty-six-e of the tax law by…
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 thousand twenty-four, the commission shall promulgate rules and regulations to require, in addition to other maintenance procedures, the trimming of vines on utility poles throughout the state by the utility co…
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 and attachers shall be required to submit an annual report on pole attachments. Such report shall include (a) the number of pole attachment requests received; (b) for each request received: (i) the processing ti…
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 counsel to the commission, subject to the direction of the chairman, to represent and appear for the people of the state and the commission in all actions and proceedings involving any question under this chapter, …
N.Y. Public Service Law § 120 Definitions
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§ 120. Definitions. Where used in this article, the following terms, unless the context otherwise requires, shall have the following meanings. 1. "Municipality" means a county, city, town or village in the state. 2. "Major utility transmission facility" means: (a) an electric tr…
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. No person shall, after July first, nineteen hundred seventy, commence the preparation of the site for the construction of a major utility transmission facility in the state without having first obtained a cert…
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 lines. 1. All persons who intend to construct fuel gas transmission lines as described in this section shall file with the commission for its approval the standards and practices which will be applied to environme…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 122 Application for a certificate
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§ 122. Application for a certificate. 1. An applicant for a certificate shall file with the commission an application, in such form as the commission may prescribe, containing the following information: (a) the location of the site or right-of-way; (b) a description of the trans…
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 an application with respect to an electric transmission line that complies with section one hundred twenty-two, the commission shall promptly fix a date for the commencement of a public hearing thereon not les…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 124 Parties to certification proceedings
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§ 124. Parties to certification proceedings. 1. The parties to the certification proceedings shall include: (a) the applicant (b) the department of environmental conservation (c) the department of commerce (d) the secretary of state. (e) the department of agriculture and markets…
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 and of all testimony taken and the cross-examinations thereon. The rules of evidence applicable to proceedings before a court shall not apply. The commission may provide for the consolidation of the representat…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 126 The decision
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§ 126. The decision. 1. The commission shall render a decision upon the record either granting or denying the application as filed or granting it upon such terms, conditions, limitations or modifications of the construction or operation of the facility as the commission may deem…
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 an application for a certificate, the commission may issue an opinion stating its reasons for the action taken. If the commission has found that any local ordinance, law, resolution, regulation, or other actio…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 128 Judicial review
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§ 128. Judicial review. 1. Any party aggrieved by any order issued on an application for a certificate may apply for a rehearing under section twenty-two within thirty days after issuance of the order and thereafter obtain judicial review of such order in a proceeding as provide…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 129 Jurisdiction of courts
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§ 129. Jurisdiction of courts. Except as expressly set forth in section one hundred twenty-eight and except for review by the court of appeals of a decision of the appellate division of the supreme court as provided for therein, no court of this state shall have jurisdiction to …
N.Y. Public Service Law § 13 Expenses
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§ 13. Expenses. All officers, clerks, inspectors, experts and employees of the commission shall receive the compensation fixed by the chairman of the commission within the amounts appropriated therefor by the legislature. The commissioners and counsel to the commission may recei…
N.Y. Public Service Law § 130 Powers of municipalities and state agencies
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§ 130. Powers of municipalities and state agencies. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no state agency, municipality or any agency thereof may require any approval, consent, permit, certificate or other condition for the construction or operation of a major facility wit…
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 insulation and energy conservation act".
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 commission. 1. After hearing upon reasonable notice, the commission shall establish home conservation plans for each utility in accordance with the provisions of this article. Such plans shall be open to participatio…