2013 New York Consolidated Laws
PBS - Public Service
Article 4 - (64 - 77) PROVISIONS RELATING TO GAS AND ELECTRIC CORPORATIONS; REGULATION OF PRICE OF GAS AND ELECTRICITY
65-B - Service to persons applying for or receiving public assistance, supplemental security income benefits or additional state payments.

 
    § 65-b. Service   to   persons   applying   for  or  receiving  public
  assistance, supplemental security income benefits  or  additional  state
  payments. No gas corporation, electric corporation or municipality shall
  refuse to supply or to continue to supply utility services to any person
  who  has  applied  for  or  is receiving public assistance, supplemental
  security income benefits, or additional state payments pursuant  to  the
  social  services  law, solely on the grounds that there may be money due
  to the utility  corporation  or  municipality  for  services  previously
  furnished  to  such  person,  if the utility corporation or municipality
  receives, or is entitled to receive, a  direct  payment  or  receives  a
  guarantee of payment from a social services district.