N.Y. Public Service Law § 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.