Assembly Bill A3720

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires deferred installment payment plan be offered to small businesses for telephone service installation, initiation and nonrecurring maintenance charges

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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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2015-A3720 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§94 & 215, Pub Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A2928
2011-2012: A6609
2013-2014: A4509

2015-A3720 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires deferred payment plan in installments over a period of up to one year be offered to small businesses for telephone installation, service initiation and nonrecurring maintenance charges; defines "small business" as a business which is resident in the state, independently owned and operated, not dominant in its field, employs one hundred or fewer persons and has installed no more than four telephone lines.

2015-A3720 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  3720

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 27, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. SCARBOROUGH, BRENNAN, COLTON, RAMOS, ZEBROWSKI --
  Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M.  of  A.  CAHILL, CLARK, GUNTHER, ROBINSON,
  WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Small Business

AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to deferred  payment
  of certain charges to residential and small business customers

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 94 of the public service  law,  as
added by chapter 593 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
  4.  (A)  The  commission shall require, with respect to any charge for
the installation or initiation of service  of  a  residential  OR  SMALL
BUSINESS  telephone line, or any nonrecurring maintenance service charge
with respect to a residential OR SMALL BUSINESS telephone line or equip-
ment, that any telephone corporation imposing such a charge offer a plan
for the deferred payment thereof in installments over a period of up  to
one  year.  For the purposes of this subdivision, charges for initiation
of service are charges for the connection of service including  but  not
limited  to charges for central office line, premises visit, inside wire
and jacks, and any related service.
  (B) FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, A SMALL  BUSINESS  SHALL  BE
DEEMED  TO  BE  ONE WHICH IS RESIDENT IN THIS STATE, INDEPENDENTLY OWNED
AND OPERATED, NOT DOMINANT IN ITS FIELD AND WHICH EMPLOYS ONE HUNDRED OR
LESS PERSONS WHICH HAS INSTALLED NO MORE THAN FOUR LINES.
  S 2.  Section 215 of the public service law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 14 to read as follows:
  14. (A) REQUIRE, WITH RESPECT TO ANY CHARGE FOR  THE  INSTALLATION  OR
INITIATION  OF SERVICE OF A RESIDENTIAL OR SMALL BUSINESS CABLE LINE, OR
ANY NONRECURRING MAINTENANCE SERVICE CHARGE WITH RESPECT TO  A  RESIDEN-
TIAL  OR  SMALL  BUSINESS CABLE LINE OR EQUIPMENT, THAT ANY CABLE CORPO-
RATION IMPOSING SUCH A CHARGE OFFER A  PLAN  FOR  THE  DEFERRED  PAYMENT
THEREOF  IN  INSTALLMENTS  OVER  A  PERIOD  OF  UP  TO ONE YEAR. FOR THE

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08095-01-5

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