New York S 10530: Relates to electric service to tenants provided through submeters

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S10530 Summary:

BILL NOS10530 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORKRUEGER

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §52-a, Pub Serv L

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Requires an owner or submeterer of a building to eliminate any submetering problems in a timely manner; imposes responsibility for all the shared area charges for service measured to areas outside of the dwelling, unless there is an agreement to the contrary; prohibits the waiver of such provision; provides a complaint process.

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BILL NOS10530 

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05/19/2026REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 10530

 IN SENATE

 May 19, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
 cations

 AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to electric service
 to tenants provided through submeters

 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 52-a to read as follows:
 3 § 52-a. Electric service to tenants provided through submeters. 1. As
 4 used in this section, the following terms shall have the following mean-
 5 ings:
 6 (a) "Owner" means and includes the owner, owners, or agents of the
 7 freehold of the premises or lesser estate therein, mortgagee or vendee
 8 in possession, assignee of rents, receiver, executor, trustee, lessee,
 9 agent, or any other person, firm or corporation, directly or indirectly
 10 in control of a dwelling.
 11 (b) "Submeterer" means any multi-unit residential premises owner or
 12 utility customer of record who purchases electricity for delivery by the
 13 utility to the premises and facilitates the sale or redistribution of
 14 such electricity for use by the premises occupants whose units are sepa-
 15 rately metered and billed based on the measurement of electricity use in
 16 each occupant's unit. Any entity acting on behalf of such owner that
 17 arranges for the installation of submeters and the billing of submetered
 18 usage to individual residents shall be considered the agent of the subm-
 19 eterer. The submeterer may engage the services of a submetering service
 20 provider to install meters, read meters and/or handle billing.
 21 (c) "Submetering" means a system of measuring electricity use in a
 22 residential unit in a master-metered multi-unit residential premises by
 23 means of a submeter installed on the wiring to each residential unit.
 24 (d) "Dwelling" means any building or structure or portion thereof
 25 which is occupied in whole or in part as the home, apartment residence
 26 or sleeping place of one or more human beings, including any equipment
 27 located outside such building or structure or portion thereof which is

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD15511-02-6

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 1 under the exclusive use and control of the occupant, and is either rent-
 2 ed, leased, let or hired out, to be occupied, or is occupied as the
 3 residence or home of one or more persons.
 4 (e) "Utility" means any gas or electric corporation and/or munici-
 5 pality providing service to residential customers.
 6 (f) "Submetered unit" means any tenant, or tenants who rent a dwelling
 7 from an owner that is served by a submeter.
 8 (g) "Extraordinary cost" means the cost, as determined by a qualified
 9 professional, of installing equipment necessary to eliminate a submeter
 10 in a dwelling or portion thereof which is in excess of the amount of
 11 rent for four months rental of such dwelling. The commission shall adopt
 12 additional rules for determining extraordinary cost based upon whether
 13 the amount of service measured by the shared meter that is utilized
 14 outside the shared meter customer's dwelling is sufficient to warrant
 15 the cost of such installation.
 16 (h) "Legal impediment" means a restriction which prevents separate
 17 metering, rewiring, or re-piping due to zon