Bill Text: NY A00949 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
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
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 949 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 6, 2021 ___________ 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