Bill Text: NY S02534 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires public utility companies to charge volunteer fire companies and volunteer ambulance corps the same rates, charges, etc. applicable to residential customers for the same services; prohibits recovery of revenue lost therefrom, from being recovered from ratepayers.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S02534 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02534-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2534
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 26, 2015
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       Introduced  by Sens. RITCHIE, ADDABBO, BONACIC, CROCI, DeFRANCISCO, ORTT
         -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
         the Committee on Energy and Telecommunications
       AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to charges  or  fees
         on  volunteer  ambulance corps and volunteer fire companies in certain
         cases
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  The public service law is amended by adding a new section
    2  116-a to read as follows:
    3    S 116-A. CERTAIN VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS TO BE TREATED  AS  INDIVIDUAL
    4  CUSTOMER; CERTAIN CASES.  NO PUBLIC UTILITY COMPANY SHALL CHARGE, IMPOSE
    5  OR  COLLECT FROM ANY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS OR VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY
    6  ANY RATE, FEE OR CHARGE NOT OTHERWISE CHARGEABLE TO AN INDIVIDUAL  RESI-
    7  DENTIAL CUSTOMER FOR THE SAME OR SIMILAR SERVICE.
    8    S  2.  Section 66 of the public service law is amended by adding a new
    9  subdivision 29 to read as follows:
   10    29. NO REVENUE FORGONE BY AN ELECTRIC  CORPORATION,  AS  A  RESULT  OF
   11  SUBJECTING  VOLUNTEER  AMBULANCE CORPS AND VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANIES WITH
   12  RATES OR CHARGES APPLICABLE TO DOMESTIC CONSUMERS  PURSUANT  TO  SECTION
   13  ONE HUNDRED SIXTEEN-A OF THIS CHAPTER, SHALL BE RECOVERED FROM CUSTOMERS
   14  OF SUCH CORPORATION.
   15    S  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
   16  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD07637-01-5