Bill Text: NY S04907 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 4907 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-03 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S04907 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S04907-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          4907
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      March 3, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens.  DIAZ, HAMILTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and  Tele-
          communications
        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
    23  corporation or association utilizes such services in connection with its
    24  religious purposes.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    26  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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