2006 New York Code - Refusal Or Neglect To Pay Rent.

 
    §  15. Refusal or neglect to pay rent. If any person supplied with gas
  or electric light by any such corporation, except residential  customers
  supplied pursuant to article two of the public service law shall neglect
  or  refuse  to  pay the rent or remuneration due for the same or for the
  wires, pipes or fittings let by the corporation, for supplying or  using
  such  gas or electric light or for ascertaining the quantity consumed or
  used as required by his contract with the corporation, or  shall  refuse
  or neglect, after being required so to do, to make the deposit required,
  such  corporation may discontinue the supply of gas or electric light to
  the premises of such person; and the officers, agents or workmen of such
  corporation may enter into or upon such premises between  the  hours  of
  eight  o'clock  in  the  forenoon  and six o'clock in the afternoon, and
  separate and carry away  any  meter,  pipe,  fittings,  wires  or  other
  property  of  such  corporation,  and  may  disconnect  any meter, pipe,
  fittings, wires or other works whether the property of  the  corporation
  or  not,  from  the  mains,  pipes  or wires of the corporation. But the
  supply  of  gas  or  electric  light  shall  not  be  discontinued   for
  non-payment  of  bills  rendered  for service until and after a five-day
  written notice has been served upon such person either by delivering the
  same to such person personally or  by  mailing  the  same  in  post-paid
  wrapper addressed to such person at premises where service is rendered.