Bill Text: NY S05520 | 2011-2012 | 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: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S05520 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S05520-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5520
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     May 27, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
         cations
       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.
                                                                  LBD05453-01-1