New York State Public Service Commission Annual Reports of Public Utility Companies

Alphabetical by name of company, then chronological by year.

13345-92, 13345-94A, 13345-94B, 13345-08, 13345-09: Chronological by year, then roughly by type of utility (telephone, electric and gas, water), then alphabetical by name of company.

13345-95, 13345-98, 13345-98A, 13345-00, 13345-01, 13345-02, 13345-03, 13345-04, 13345-05, 13345-06, 13345-07, 13345-15, 13345-23: Arranged by type/class of utility, then alphabetical by name of company.

This series consists of annual reports submitted by public utilities (water, gas, electricity, steam, telephone, telegraph, railroad, and radio-telephone companies) to the Public Service Commission and then the Department of Public Service. Reports are filed by three types of public entities operating public utilities subject to regulation by the Public Service Commission: commercial, municipal, and private associations. Files for gas utilities contain reports for 1906-1907 that were submitted to the Commission of Gas and Electricity under Chapter 737, Laws of 1905. These files were transferred to the Public Service Commission established under Chapter 429, Laws of 1907.

The original statute establishing the Commission and subsequent amendments to the law require public utilities to prepare and file an annual report containing the following information: amount of authorized capital stock and amount issued and outstanding (if utility is a private company); amount of authorized bonded indebtedness and amount of bonds and other forms of evidence of indebtedness issued or outstanding; receipts and expenditures for the preceding year; amount paid as dividends on stock and as interest on bonds; name and amount paid as salary to officers and amount paid as wages to employees; location of plant and system, and full description of property and franchise with detail of how each franchise is to be owned or was acquired; and other facts as required by commission.

13345-94A: The accretion includes annual reports for 1984 for electric and gas utilities; telephone corporations (class A and B); municipal electric utilities; water works corporations and utilities (class A, B, C, D and E). A very small number of reports cover both 1983 and 1984.

13345-97: The accretion includes annual reports for 1987 for electric and gas utilities (class A, B, C, and D); telephone corporations (class A and B); municipal electric utilities; water works corporations and utilities (class A, B, C, D and E). There is one instance of annual reports for both 1985 and 1987.

13345-00: This accretion consists of annual reports for 1990 for telephone companies, gas and electric utilities and water corporations. In addition, the 1974, 1976 and 1977 reports for: The Three "B's" Inc., Mountain View Estates Water System, and the Orchard Hill Water Co. are included (but not their 1990 reports).

13345-01: This accretion consists of annual reports for 1990 and 1991 for gas and electric utilities; telephone companies; water companies (class A, B, C, D, and E); municipal gas, electric, and water utilities. A small number of reports for the years 1987 and 1988 are also included. Reports for cellular communication companies are included for the years 1991 to 1996. Chapter 684 of the Laws of 1997 suspended the Public Service Commission's jurisdiction over cellular telephone services.

13345-02: This accretion consists of annual reports for 1992 for gas, electric, and telephone companies, water municipalities, and fiber optic communications companies. A small number of reports are included for the years 1990 and 1991.

13345-06: This accretion consists of reports from water companies (class A, B, C, D, and E), telelcommunications companies, A and B electric and gas companies, C and D electric and gas companies, and municipalities for the year 1996. One report for the year 1995 is also included.

Selected annual reports in this series have been digitized and are available in State Archives Digital Collections.

Series B0299 New York State Public Service Commission Annual Reports contains reports filed by companies with the Public Service Commission.

Series 10093 New York State Public Service Commission Annual Reports of Steam Railroad and Electric Railway Companies contains reports filed by companies with the Public Service Commission.

13345-15, 13345-23: This accretion was transferred under records disposition number 21758.

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