2018 New York Laws
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Article 2 - Residential Gas, Electric and Steam Utility Service
47 - Inspection and Examination of Apparatus.

§ 47. Inspection  and  examination  of apparatus. 1. A duly authorized
  agent of a utility corporation or municipality may enter  any  dwelling,
  building  or  other  location  supplied  with  gas or electricity by the
  utility corporation or municipality, for the purpose of  inspecting  and
  examining  the  meters,  pipes,  fittings, wires and other apparatus for
  regulating, supplying and/or ascertaining the quantity  supplied,  under
  the following terms and conditions:
(a)  the  agent  exhibits  a  photo-identification badge and a written
  authority signed by the president or  vice-president  and  secretary  or
  assistant  secretary  of  the corporation, or by the mayor or clerk of a
  municipal corporation or by the chairman and secretary  of  a  municipal
  board in control of a municipal utility, and
(b)  any  such  inspection  and  examination  shall  be conducted on a
  non-holiday work day between eight a.m.  and  six  p.m.  or  such  other
  reasonable  time requested by the customer, except when an emergency may
  threaten the health or safety of a person, the surrounding area  or  the
  utility's  or  municipality's  distribution  system,  or except when the
  commission by regulation establishes a different time for the inspection
  and examination where there is evidence of meter tampering or  theft  of
  services.
2.  Except  when  an  emergency may threaten the health or safety of a
  person,  the  surrounding  area  or  the  utility's  or   municipality's
  distribution  system  or  where authorized by court order, an agent of a
  utility or  municipality,  otherwise  duly  authorized  to  inspect  and
  examine  apparatus may not enter locked premises without permission of a
  person lawfully in control of the premises, nor use any manner of  force
  to carry out such inspection and examination.