New York Laws
Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Gas and Electric Corporations; Regulation of Price of Gas and Electricity
73-A - Prioritization of Emergency Services.

* § 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.

* NB Effective December 22, 2023

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