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PUBLIC SERVICE LAW LAWS 1910, CHAPTER 480 An act relating to the public service of utility companies, constituting chapter forty-eight of the consolidated laws. Became a law June 14, 1910, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate a…
ARTICLE 1 THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE Section 1. Short title. 2. Definitions. 3. Department of public service. 3-a. Transfer of lands. 3-b. Long Island office of the department. 3-c. Office of renewable energy siting and electric transmission. 4. The public service commission. 4-b. Removals. 5. Jurisdiction, power…
§ 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 thirty shall be treated as amendments to th…
§ 2. Definitions. 1. The term "department" when used in this chapter, means the department of public service, and the term "commission," means the public service commission. 2. The term "commissioner," when used in this chapter, means one of the members of the public service commission. 2-a. The term "co-generation fac…
§ 3. Department of public service. There shall be in the state government a department of public service. The chairman of the public service commission shall be the chief executive officer of the department. He or she shall appoint and shall have the power to remove, subject to the provisions of the civil service law,…
§ 3-a. Transfer of lands. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any land, property, right, easement or fee under the jurisdiction of the commission acquired in the name of the people of the state of New York for the purpose of the construction, maintenance or development of a grade crossing elimination project or…
§ 3-b. Long Island office of the department. 1. There is hereby established in the department an office to review and make recommendations with respect to the operations and terms and conditions of service of, and rates and budgets established by, the Long Island power authority and/or its service provider. 2. Definiti…
* § 3-c. Office of renewable energy siting and electric transmission. 1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Executive director" or "director" shall mean the executive director of the office of renewable energy siting and electric transmission. (b)…
§ 4. The public service commission. 1. There shall be in the department of public service a public service commission, which shall possess the powers and duties hereinafter specified, and also all powers necessary or proper to enable it to carry out the purposes of this chapter. The commission shall consist of five mem…
§ 4-b. Removals. The governor may remove any public service commissioner, now in office or hereafter appointed, for inefficiency, neglect of duty or misconduct in office, giving him a copy of the charges against him, and an opportunity of being publicly heard in person or by counsel in his own defense, upon not less th…
§ 5. Jurisdiction, powers and duties of public service commission. 1. The jurisdiction, supervision, powers and duties of the public service commission shall extend under this chapter: b. To the manufacture, conveying, transportation, sale or distribution of gas (natural or manufactured or mixture of both) and electric…
§ 5-b. Corporations subject to chapter although not transacting business. Corporations formed to acquire property or to transact business which would be subject to the provisions of this chapter, and corporations possessing franchises for any of the purposes contemplated by this chapter, shall be deemed to be subject t…
§ 5-e. Jurisdiction of commission over certain corporations, their operations and facilities. 1. The commission shall have no jurisdiction, supervision, powers or duties with respect to any corporation which is owned or controlled in whole or in part by a gas corporation, an electric corporation or a gas and electric c…
§ 7. Organization and records; minutes as evidence; destruction of certain records. 1. The commission shall have a secretary and assistant secretaries to be appointed by the chairman. It shall be the duty of the secretary to keep a full and true record of all proceedings and a transcript of the public sessions of the c…
§ 8. Additional officers and employees. The chairman shall have power to employ such officers, clerks, inspectors, experts and employees, and to make such contracts for special services as he may deem to be necessary to carry out this chapter, or to perform the duties and exercise the powers conferred by law upon the c…
§ 9. Oath of office; eligibility of commissioners and officers. Each commissioner and each person appointed to office by the chairman shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office. The oaths of office other than those of a commissioner shall be filed in the o…
§ 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 the city of New York. The commission shall…
§ 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 hold meetings of the commission at any ti…
§ 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, or within the jurisdiction of the commiss…
§ 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 receive, in lieu of expenses, twenty-five doll…
§ 14. Payment of salaries and expenses. All salaries and expenses of the public service commission shall be paid monthly from the state treasury upon the audit and warrant of the comptroller out of the funds provided therefor.
§ 15. Certain acts prohibited. Every commissioner, and every person employed or appointed to office in the department is hereby forbidden and prohibited to solicit, suggest, request or recommend, directly or indirectly, to any corporation or person subject to the supervision of the commission, or to any officer, attorn…
§ 16. Reports of commission. 1. All proceedings of the commission and all documents and records in its possession shall be public records. 2. The commission shall conduct a hearing and take testimony relative to any pending legislation with respect to any person, corporation or matter within the jurisdiction of the com…
§ 17. Certified copies of papers filed to be evidence. Copies of all official documents and orders filed or deposited according to law in the office of the commission, certified by a commissioner or by the secretary or assistant secretary of the commission to be true copies of the originals, under the official seal of…
§ 18-a. Costs and expenses of the commission and department and the assessment of such costs and expenses. 1. All costs and expenses of the department and commission shall be paid pursuant to appropriation on the certification of the chairman of the department and upon the audit and warrant of the comptroller. The stat…