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The New York Public Service Commission is the public utilities commission of the New York state government that regulates and oversees the electric, gas, water, and telecommunication industries in New York as part of the Department of Public Service. The department's regulations are compiled in title 16 of the New York Codes, Rules and ...
On March 28, 1938, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the SEC and the Public Utilities Act of 1935, giving it full authority to enforce the Act. Within 3 months 142 holding companies had registered with the SEC that made up 51 separate public utility systems, comprising 524 individual holding and 1,524 sub-holding and operating companies.
Consolidated Edison Co. v. Public Service Commission, 447 U.S. 530 (1980), was a United States Supreme Court decision addressing the free speech rights of public utility corporations under the First Amendment. [1]
The New York Public Service Commission is a government agency that regulates the various utilities of the state of New York. [129] Its regulations are contained in title 16 of the New York Codes, Rules and Regulations (Public Service Law).
[24] [25] [26] The trial court and Supreme Court appellate term opinions are published selectively in the Miscellaneous Reports. [25] [27] The most recent decisions are found in the New York Reports 3d (cited as N.Y.3d), the Appellate Division Reports 3d (cited as A.D.3d) and the Miscellaneous Reports 3d (cited as Misc. 3d). [28]
Power Plant and Industrial Fuel Use Act; Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act; Energy Tax Act; Natural Gas Policy Act; Encouraged conservation efforts in homes, schools, and other public buildings. Restricted new power plants using oil or natural gas (repealed in 1987). Opened electric markets to alternative power producers.
The New York State Constitution, Art.X, sec. 5, provides that public benefit corporations may only be created by special act of the legislature. In City of Rye v. MTA, 24 N.Y.2d 627 (1969), the court of appeals explained that "The debates of the 1938 Convention indicate that the proliferation of public authorities after 1927 was the reason for the enactment of section 5 of article X....
In the midst of the 1973 oil crisis, the Public Service Commission of New York, a public utilities commission, required electric companies to ban any language from their current marketing that promoted the use of electricity, trying to encourage conservation to extend their fuel resources during the crisis. By 1976, the oil crisis had been ...