Assembly Bill A6004

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Requires telegraph and telephone corporations to charge religious organizations residential rates

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A6004 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S444
Current Committee:
Assembly Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง92, Pub Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A5028, S3105
2011-2012: A6115, S295
2015-2016: S140
2017-2018: S4907

2013-A6004 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2013-A6004 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6004

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 13, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. BRENNAN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. JACOBS
  -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Corporations,  Authori-
  ties and Commissions

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:

  Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 92 of the public service  law,  as
amended  by  chapter  124  of  the  laws  of 1911, is amended to read as
follows:
  3. [No] (A) EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED  IN  PARAGRAPH  (B)  OF  THIS
SUBDIVISION,  NO  telegraph corporation or telephone corporation subject
to the provisions of this chapter shall, directly  or  indirectly,  give
any  free  or  reduced service, or any free pass or frank for the trans-
mission of messages by either  telephone  or  telegraph  between  points
within  this  state, except to its officers, employees, agents, pension-
ers, surgeons,  physicians,  attorneys-at-law  and  their  families;  to
persons  or corporations exclusively engaged in charitable and eleemosy-
nary work and ministers of religions; to officers and employees of other
telegraph corporations and telephone corporations, railroad corporations
and street railroad corporations.  But this subdivision shall not  apply
to state, municipal or federal contracts.
  (B)  NO TELEGRAPH CORPORATION OR TELEPHONE CORPORATION SHALL, DIRECTLY
OR INDIRECTLY, CHARGE, DEMAND, COLLECT OR RECEIVE A RATE,  WHICH  IS  IN
EXCESS  OF  THE  APPLICABLE  RESIDENTIAL  RATE  FOR  THE TRANSMISSION OF
MESSAGES BY EITHER TELEPHONE OR  TELEGRAPH  BETWEEN  POINTS  WITHIN  THE
STATE,  FROM  ANY  CORPORATION OR ASSOCIATION ORGANIZED AND CONDUCTED IN
GOOD FAITH FOR RELIGIOUS PURPOSES, INCLUDING THE OPERATION OF  A  SCHOOL
REGARDLESS  OF  WHETHER  SECULAR  SUBJECTS ARE TAUGHT THEREIN, WHEN SUCH

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00611-01-3

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