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 Dec. 21, 2024).

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Application of article 65
Safe and adequate service 65‑A
Notification to social services officials 65‑B
Service to persons applying for or receiving public assistance, supplemental security income benefits or additional state payments 66
General powers of commission in respect to gas and electricity 66‑A
Conservation of gas, declaration of policy, delegation of power 66‑B
Continuation of gas service 66‑C
Conservation of energy 66‑D
Contract carrier authorization 66‑E
Monitoring of natural gas procurement 66‑F
Purchase and procurement of natural gas at lowest available price 66‑G
Sale of indigenous natural gas for generation of electricity 66‑H
Certain electric corporations 66‑J
Net energy metering for residential solar, farm waste, non-residential solar electric generating systems, micro-combined heat and power g... 66‑K
Allowance credit trading or sales 66‑L
Net energy metering for residential, farm service and non-residential wind electric generating systems 66‑M
Green jobs-green New York on-bill recovery 66‑N
Net metering study 66‑O
Electric vehicle charging tariff 66‑P
Establishment of a renewable energy program 66‑Q
Gas and electric billing information for residential rental premises 66‑R
Requirements for certain renewable energy systems 66‑S
Electric vehicle charging 66‑T
Thermal energy network development 66‑T*2
Registration of energy brokers and energy consultants 66‑U
Gas safety reports 66‑V
Requirements for certain climate risk-related and energy transition projects 66‑W
Finality of charges 67
Inspection of gas and electric meters 67‑A
Charges for past services 68
Certificate of public convenience and necessity 68‑A
Statements of nature and extent of interests to be filed upon request 69
Approval of issues of stock, bonds and other forms of indebtedness 69‑A
Reorganizations 70
Transfer of franchises or stocks 70‑A
Street lights 71
Complaints as to quality and price of gas and electricity 72
Notice and hearing 72‑A
Increased fuel costs 73
Compensation to customers experiencing widespread prolonged outages 73‑A
Prioritization of emergency services 74
Energy storage deployment policy 74‑A
Westchester county renewable energy and energy efficiency resources program 74‑B
Long Island community choice aggregation programs 75
Defense in case of excessive charges for gas or electricity 76
Rates charged veteran organizations, religious bodies and community residences 77
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Accessed:
Dec. 21, 2024

Last modified:
Dec. 29, 2023

§ 73-A’s source at nysenate​.gov

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