N.Y. Transp. Corp. Law § 12 Gas and Electricity Must Be Supplied On Application

• Library: New York Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through 2023 NY Law Chapter 777
• Year: 2023
• Citation: N.Y. Transp. Corp. Law § 12

Except in the case of an application for residential utility service pursuant to article two of the public service law, upon written application of the owner or occupant of any building within one hundred feet of any main of a gas corporation or gas and electric corporation, or a line of an electric corporation or gas and electric corporation, appropriate to the service requested, and payment by him of all money due from him to the corporation, it shall supply gas or electricity as may be required for lighting such building, notwithstanding there be rent or compensation in arrears for gas or electricity supplied, or for meter, wire, pipe or fittings furnished, to a former occupant thereof, unless such owner or occupant shall have undertaken or agreed with the former occupant to pay or to exonerate him from the payment of such arrears, and shall refuse or neglect to pay the same; and if for the space of ten days after such application, and the deposit of a reasonable sum as provided in the next section, if requir...