Bill Text: NY A00796 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 796 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to the tolling of charges imposed by meter for residential use of the water supply when such charges are disputed.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-03-25 - reported referred to codes [A00796 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A00796-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
       ________________________________________________________________________
                                        796--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on  Cities -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
         amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
         relation  to  the  tolling of charges imposed by meter for residential
         use of the water supply when such charges are disputed
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended
    2  by adding a new section 24-340 to read as follows:
    3    S 24-340 CHARGES  TOLLED  DURING  APPEALS.  WHENEVER  A  PERSON  SHALL
    4  DISPUTE THE CHARGE IMPOSED BY THE METERING OF SUCH INDIVIDUAL'S RESIDEN-
    5  TIAL USE OF THE WATER SUPPLY, OR WHENEVER SUCH PERSON DISPUTES THE ACTU-
    6  AL  AMOUNT  OF  WATER  USED  AS  MEASURED BY METER, THE DISPUTED CHARGES
    7  IMPOSED BY SUCH METER SHALL BE HELD IN ABEYANCE  PENDING  FINAL  ADJUDI-
    8  CATION  ON  THE  MERITS,  INCLUDING  THE  EXHAUSTION  OF  ADMINISTRATIVE
    9  APPEALS, BY THE DEPARTMENT. SUCH CHARGES SHALL NOT BE ATTACHED AS A LIEN
   10  AGAINST SUCH INDIVIDUAL'S RESIDENCE UNLESS AND  UNTIL  THE  DISPUTE  HAS
   11  REACHED  A FINAL ADJUDICATION ON THE MERITS, INCLUDING THE EXHAUSTION OF
   12  ADMINISTRATIVE APPEALS, BY THE DEPARTMENT. SUCH  CHARGES,  IF  DISPUTED,
   13  SHALL NOT ACCRUE LATE PAYMENT CHARGES UNTIL THIRTY DAYS AFTER SUCH FINAL
   14  ADJUDICATION.
   15    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD03939-02-3