N.Y.
Public Service Law Section 73-A
Prioritization of emergency services
1.
If, during a widespread prolonged outage that affects at least twenty thousand customers in the service territory of an electric corporation, and such corporation is not able to restore electric power services within twenty-four hours to any affected police department, fire department, ambulance service or advanced life support first response service facility that is prewired with an appropriate transfer switch for using an alternate generated power source, such electric corporation shall notify the village, town or city in which such facility is located.2.
Towns, cities, and villages shall provide to counties, and counties shall, to the extent practicable, provide the electric corporations and the division of homeland security and emergency services with a list of such police departments, fire departments, ambulance services and advanced life support first response services located within such municipality’s territorial boundaries within one year of the effective date of this section, and periodically thereafter as necessary to update such list.3.
For the purposes of this section, “alternate generated power source” shall mean electric generating equipment that is of the capacity that is capable of providing adequate electricity to operate all life safety systems and the basic operations of a police department, fire department, ambulance service or advanced life support first response service.
Source:
Section 73-A — Prioritization of emergency services, https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PBS/73-A (updated Dec. 29, 2023; accessed Oct. 26, 2024).
