Bill Text: NY A06004 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires telegraph and telephone corporations to charge religious organizations residential rates.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A06004 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A06004-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6004
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 13, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. BRENNAN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. JACOBS
         -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Corporations,  Authori-
         ties and Commissions
       AN  ACT  to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring tele-
         graph and telephone corporations to offer residential rates  to  reli-
         gious organizations
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 92 of the public service  law,  as
    2  amended  by  chapter  124  of  the  laws  of 1911, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    3. [No] (A) EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED  IN  PARAGRAPH  (B)  OF  THIS
    5  SUBDIVISION,  NO  telegraph corporation or telephone corporation subject
    6  to the provisions of this chapter shall, directly  or  indirectly,  give
    7  any  free  or  reduced service, or any free pass or frank for the trans-
    8  mission of messages by either  telephone  or  telegraph  between  points
    9  within  this  state, except to its officers, employees, agents, pension-
   10  ers, surgeons,  physicians,  attorneys-at-law  and  their  families;  to
   11  persons  or corporations exclusively engaged in charitable and eleemosy-
   12  nary work and ministers of religions; to officers and employees of other
   13  telegraph corporations and telephone corporations, railroad corporations
   14  and street railroad corporations.  But this subdivision shall not  apply
   15  to state, municipal or federal contracts.
   16    (B)  NO TELEGRAPH CORPORATION OR TELEPHONE CORPORATION SHALL, DIRECTLY
   17  OR INDIRECTLY, CHARGE, DEMAND, COLLECT OR RECEIVE A RATE,  WHICH  IS  IN
   18  EXCESS  OF  THE  APPLICABLE  RESIDENTIAL  RATE  FOR  THE TRANSMISSION OF
   19  MESSAGES BY EITHER TELEPHONE OR  TELEGRAPH  BETWEEN  POINTS  WITHIN  THE
   20  STATE,  FROM  ANY  CORPORATION OR ASSOCIATION ORGANIZED AND CONDUCTED IN
   21  GOOD FAITH FOR RELIGIOUS PURPOSES, INCLUDING THE OPERATION OF  A  SCHOOL
   22  REGARDLESS  OF  WHETHER  SECULAR  SUBJECTS ARE TAUGHT THEREIN, WHEN SUCH
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00611-01-3
       A. 6004                             2
    1  CORPORATION OR ASSOCIATION UTILIZES SUCH SERVICES IN CONNECTION WITH ITS
    2  RELIGIOUS PURPOSES.
    3    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    4  it shall have become a law.