Legislation
SECTION 1020-MM
Prioritization of emergency services
Public Authorities (PBA) CHAPTER 43-A, ARTICLE 5, TITLE 1-A
§ 1020-mm. Prioritization of emergency services. 1. If, during a
widespread prolonged outage that affects at least twenty thousand
customers in the service territory of the authority, and the service
provider 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 service provider 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 service provider 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.
widespread prolonged outage that affects at least twenty thousand
customers in the service territory of the authority, and the service
provider 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 service provider 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 service provider 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.