N.Y. Transportation Corporations Law § 15: Refusal or neglect to pay rent

§ 15. Refusal or neglect to pay rent. If any person supplied with gas

or electric light by any such corporation, except residential customers

supplied pursuant to article two of the public service law shall neglect

or refuse to pay the rent or remuneration due for the same or for the

wires, pipes or fittings let by the corporation, for supplying or using

such gas or electric light or for ascertaining the quantity consumed or

used as required by his contract with the corporation, or shall refuse

or neglect, after being required so to do, to make the deposit required,

such corporation may discontinue the supply of gas or electric light to

the premises of such person; and the officers, agents or workmen of such

corporation may enter into or upon such premises between the hours of

eight o'clock in the forenoon and six o'clock in the afternoon, and

separate and carry away any meter, pipe, fittings, wires or other

property of such corporation, and may disconnect any meter, pipe,

fittings, wires or other works whether the property of the corporation

or not, from the mains, pipes or wires of the corporation. But the

supply of gas or electric light shall not be discontinued for

non-payment of bills rendered for service until and after a five-day

written notice has been served upon such person either by delivering the

same to such person personally or by mailing the same in post-paid

wrapper addressed to such person at premises where service is rendered.