New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE
Chapter IV - STEAM UTILITIES
Subchapter A - Service
Part 400 - Installation Of House Service Equipment, Operating Conditions, And Testing Of Meters And Of Steam Quality By Corporations Having 1,000 Installed Custom
Section 400.2 - General
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 12, March 20, 2024
(a) The rules and regulations contained herein are promulgated to establish minimum requirements for the guidance of utilities in controlling operating conditions and in instituting practices in connection with the installation, testing and maintenance of steam meters and steam service equipment.
(b) For the purpose of these rules and regulations, the term utilities shall include all corporations which distribute steam under the jurisdiction of the commission and which have 1,000 or more meters installed on customers' premises.
(c) Each utility shall provide adequate meter testing facilities and shall have all meters, used or intended to be used for the purpose of billing customers, tested as required by the rules and regulations contained herein.
(d) No utility shall use for the purpose of billing customers any steam meter or accessory equipment which affects or determines the measurement of the quantity of steam furnished to or for the use of any customer, the type of which shall not have been approved by the commission.
(e) Application for approval by the commission of a type of steam meter, including any accessory equipment which affects or determines the measurement of the quantity of steam furnished to or for the use of any customer, shall be submitted by a utility by whom such meter is intended to be used.
(f) Provision shall be made to insure that a condensate type meter will in no case operate under pressure.
(g) The installation or a head type flow meter shall conform with the applicable provisions set forth in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Standards covering flow measurement (presently designated as PTC 19.5; 4- 1959), in effect at the time of meter installation.
(h) Each utility shall maintain its equipment in customers' premises in good condition.
(i) Each utility shall keep a record of the average pressure which exists each month at pressure recording stations throughout its system.
(j) Each steam meter in service shall have affixed thereto, in a permanent manner, an identifying number or designation.
