§ 5. Jurisdiction, powers and duties of public service commission. 1.\nThe jurisdiction, supervision, powers and duties of the public service\ncommission shall extend under this chapter:\n b. To the manufacture, conveying, transportation, sale or distribution\nof gas (natural or manufactured or mixture of both) and electricity for\nlight, heat or power, to gas plants and to electric plants and to the\npersons or corporations owning, leasing or operating the same.\n c. To the manufacture, holding, distribution, transmission, sale or\nfurnishing of steam for heat or power, to steam plants and to the\npersons or corporations owning, leasing or operating the same.\n d. To every telephone line which lies wholly within the state and that\npart within the state of New York of every telephone line which lies\npartly within and partly without the state and to the persons or\ncorporations owning, leasing or operating any such telephone line.\n e. To every telegraph line which lies wholly within the state and that\npart within the state of New York of every telegraph line which lies\npartly within and partly without the state and to the persons or\ncorporations owning, leasing or operating any such telegraph line.\n f. To the furnishing or distribution of water for domestic, commercial\nor public uses and to water systems and to the persons or corporations\nowning, leasing or operating the same.\n g. To every stock yard within the state and to the stock yard company\nowning, leasing or operating the same, to the same extent and in respect\nto the same objects and purposes as such jurisdiction extends, under\nthis chapter, to depots, freight houses and shipping stations of a\ncommon carrier, including the duty of such stock yard company to submit\nreports and be subjected to investigation as if it were a common\ncarrier, and the powers and duties of such commission to fix charges and\nmake and enforce orders relating to adequate service by such company.\n h. A corporation or person owning or holding a majority of the stock\nof a common carrier, gas corporation or electrical corporation subject\nto the jurisdiction of the public service commission shall be subject to\nthe supervision of the public service commission in respect of the\nrelations between such common carrier, gas corporation or electrical\ncorporation and such owners or holders of a majority of the stock\nthereof in so far as such relations arise from or by reason of such\nownership or holding of stock thereof or the receipt or holding of any\nmoney or property thereof or from or by reason of any contract between\nthem; and in respect of such relations shall in like manner and to the\nsame extent as such common carrier, gas corporation or electrical\ncorporation be subject to examination of accounts, records and\nmemoranda, and shall furnish such reports and information as the public\nservice commission shall from time to time direct and require, and shall\nbe subject to like penalties for default therein.\n i. To thermal energy provided by gas corporations, electric\ncorporations, or combination gas and electric corporations.\n 2. The commission shall encourage all persons and corporations subject\nto its jurisdiction to formulate and carry out long-range programs,\nindividually or cooperatively, for the performance of their public\nservice responsibilities with economy, efficiency, and care for the\npublic safety, the preservation of environmental values and the\nconservation of natural resources.\n 3. Application of the provisions of this chapter to one-way paging or\ntwo-way mobile radio telephone service with the exception of such\nservices provided by means of cellular radio communication is suspended\nunless the commission, no sooner than one year after the effective date\nof this subdivision, makes a determination, after notice and hearing,\nthat regulation of such services should be reinstituted to the extent\nfound necessary to protect the public interest
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