A 5166: Requires utility companies to provide written notice to the owner of a residential property of the date and approximate time the utility company will enter onto the property and the purpose for which the utility company employee or contractor shall be entering onto the property.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5166 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 12, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring utility companies to give homeowners notice of intent to enter onto private property The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a new section 2 44-a to read as follows: 3 § 44-a. Notice of intent to enter onto private property. Prior to 4 entering onto any residential private property to effect installations, 5 disconnections, repairs, service work or meter readings, a utility 6 company shall provide written notice to the owner of the property of the 7 date and approximate time of the intended entry and the purpose for 8 which the utility company employee or contractor shall be entering onto 9 the property. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 11 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09224-01-5