| Date of Action |
Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
|---|---|
| Apr 04, 2014 |
referred to energy and telecommunications |
Senate Bill S6944
2013-2014 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C) 7th Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Energy And Telecommunications Committee
Actions
2013-S6944 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Energy And Telecommunications
- Law Section:
- Public Services
2013-S6944 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Authorizes the public service commission, upon application by a municipality, following a local law, to order costs for infrastructure maintenance and access to be charged to all customer classes located in such municipality; provides that all costs allocated to the infrastructure maintenance and access function of a water-works corporation including equipment used in connection with the sale, furnishing, transmission and distribution of water for domestic, commercial, public and emergency purposes are eligible to be apportioned to customers in a municipality; defines municipality as a city, town, village or fire district in the county of Nassau.
2013-S6944 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S6944
TITLE OF BILL: An act in relation to authorizing the public service
commission, upon application by a municipality, to order costs for
infrastructure maintenance and access to be charged to all customer
classes located in such municipality
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF THE BILL: To reduce property tax liability
under certain circumstances by having all water rate payers pay for
the costs associated with fire hydrant infrastructure maintenance and
access charged to a municipality by a private water company, public
water authority or water district.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1 authorizes a municipality, after public hearing with notice
and upon affirmative resolution of the municipality, to apply to the
public service commission to have the costs associated with
infrastructure, maintenance and access it is charged by a private
water works corporation, water system, municipal water system or water
authority to be charged to all customers across all customer classes.
Any savings achieved as a result to be applied to the property tax
levy of the municipality in an amount equal to such savings in the
following fiscal year. This section also includes definitions.
Section 2 provides for an immediate effective date.
2013-S6944 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________
6944
I N S E N A T E
April 4, 2014
___________
Introduced by Sen. MARTINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
cations
AN ACT in relation to authorizing the public service commission, upon
application by a municipality, to order costs for infrastructure main-
tenance and access to be charged to all customer classes located in
such municipality
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. 1. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a municipality
may apply to the public service commission to have any costs for infras-
tructure maintenance and access it is charged by a water-works corpo-
ration, water system, municipal water system, or water authority to
instead be charged to all customers across all customer classes located
in the municipality provided the municipality has held a public hearing
with notice on the matter and has adopted a resolution and determined by
a majority vote of the total voting strength of its governing body that
it is in the overall public interest to have such costs charged to all
customers across all customer classes. Any savings achieved as a result
of this action shall be applied to the property tax levy of the munici-
pality which has adopted such a resolution in an amount equal to such
savings in the following fiscal year. Within 120 days after receiving an
application pursuant to this act, the public service commission is
empowered and directed to issue an order requiring that costs for
infrastructure maintenance and access be included in the rates charged
to all customer classes and apportioned among all customers located in
the municipality and that such municipality shall not be charged sepa-
rately or additionally for costs for infrastructure maintenance and
access. The public service commission shall have the power to request
any information that it may deem necessary from the water-works corpo-
ration, water system, municipal water system, or water authority or
municipality so that it may issue an order as required by this section
and may require that such information or application be in the form and
manner as the commission may request.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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