N.Y. Transportation Corporations Law § 112: Service to be furnished upon application

§ 112. Service to be furnished upon application. A district steam

corporation, upon the application in writing of the owner or occupant of

any building or premises, within one hundred feet of any street main

laid down by any such corporation, and payment by him of all money due

from him to it such corporation shall supply steam as may be required

for heating such building or premises, notwithstanding there may be rent

or compensation in arrears for steam supplied, or for meter, pipe or

fittings furnished to a former occupant thereof, unless such owner or

occupant shall have undertaken or agreed with the former occupant to pay

or to exonerate him from the payment of such arrears, and shall refuse

or neglect to pay the same. If, for the space of twenty days after such

application, and the deposit, if required, of a reasonable sum to cover

the cost of connection and two months' steam supply, the corporation

shall refuse or neglect to supply steam as required, it shall forfeit to

such applicant the sum of ten dollars and the further sum of five

dollars for every day thereafter during which such refusal or neglect

shall continue. No such corporation shall be required to lay a service

pipe for the purpose of supplying steam to any applicant when the ground

in which such pipe is required to be laid is frozen, or otherwise

presents serious obstacles to laying the same, nor unless the applicant,

if required, shall deposit in advance with the corporation a sum of

money sufficient to pay for two months' steam supply and the cost of the

necessary connections and of the erection of a meter and such other

special apparatus as are required for use in connection with such steam

supply, and provide the space and right of way necessary for the

erection, maintenance and use of such connections and apparatus, and

signify his assent in writing to the reasonable regulations of the

corporation with reference to the supply of steam to consumers. For the

purposes of this section, a district steam corporation shall not include

a non-profit cooperative corporation organized under the cooperative

corporations law to make or produce and distribute steam solely for the

use of its members.