New York A10648 prohibits utility service shutoffs for non-payment during extreme heat and cold periods, while allowing such shutoffs outside these.
New York A10648, known as the "utility shutoff protection act," aims to protect residential customers from utility service shutoffs due to non-payment during summer and winter periods of extreme heat or cold. The bill allows such utility services to be discontinued for non-payment outside these periods. It mandates that utility corporations and municipalities restore all residential utility services that were discontinued for non-payment by the first day of each summer and winter protection season.
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