N.Y. Transportation Corporations Law § 10: Definitions

§ 10. Definitions. A gas corporation is a corporation organized to

manufacture, to produce or otherwise acquire and to supply for public

use artificial or natural gas, a mixture of both artificial and natural

gases or thermal energy for light, heat or power and for lighting the

streets and public and private buildings of cities, villages and towns

in this state. An electric corporation is a corporation organized to

manufacture, to produce or otherwise acquire, and to supply for public

use electricity or thermal energy for light, heat or power, and for

lighting streets, avenues, public parks and places and public and

private buildings of cities, villages and towns within this state. A gas

and electric corporation is a corporation organized for purposes of both

a gas corporation and an electric corporation. For purposes of this

article, "thermal energy" shall have the same meaning as defined by

subdivision twenty-eight of section two of the public service law.