Bill Text: NY A00949 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the public service commission to require water-works corporations to provide certain residents with non-billing related information.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-07-01 - signed chap.191 [A00949 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00949-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           949

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, OTIS -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to  authorizing  the
          public  service  commission  to  require  water-works  corporations to
          provide certain residents with non-billing related information

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 89-c of the public service law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 17 to read as follows:
     3    17. The commission shall have power to require each water-works corpo-
     4  ration  to  establish a process for residents of any cooperative, condo-
     5  minium or multi-family dwelling with five  or  more  residential  units,
     6  which  uses  a  master  meter  to distribute water to such residents, to
     7  obtain non-billing related information regarding the delivery  of  water
     8  including  but not limited to service updates, water quality notices and
     9  other information deemed essential to water consumers.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04376-01-1