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Assembly Bill A8503

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Requires water works corporations to post water supply statements online

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2017-A8503 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4406
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1152, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
A3040, S1455

2017-A8503 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires water works corporations to post water supply statements online if a website exists or make such available to the municipalities' website.

2017-A8503 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8503
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 16, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. VANEL -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  requiring  water
   works corporations to post water supply statements online
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 3 of section 1152 of the  public  health
 law,  subdivision  1  as  added  by  chapter 752 of the laws of 1986 and
 subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 62 of the laws of 1998, are  amended
 to read as follows:
   1. Each water works corporation shall provide a water supply statement
 to  its  customers  annually.  The  annual  water supply statement shall
 either be mailed to each customer or published in at least one newspaper
 of general circulation in the area served  by  the  water  works  corpo-
 ration.  If  the  statement is to be published in a newspaper, the water
 works corporation shall provide ample  notification  by  announcing  the
 publication  date  and newspaper name either on the customers bill or in
 the newspaper in which the statement shall appear. A limited  number  of
 additional  copies,  in  a  quantity to be determined by the water works
 corporation, shall be provided to customers upon request.  IN  ADDITION,
 THE  STATEMENT  MUST BE POSTED ON THE WATER WORKS CORPORATION'S WEBSITE,
 IF SUCH EXISTS, OR BE MADE AVAILABLE  TO  THE  MUNICIPALITY  OR  MUNICI-
 PALITIES  IN  WHICH THE WATER WORKS CORPORATION SERVICES TO BE POSTED ON
 SUCH MUNICIPALITIES' WEBSITE, IF SUCH EXISTS.
   3. The annual water supply statement shall be mailed  [or],  published
 OR  POSTED  ONLINE on or before the thirty-first day of May of each year
 and shall apply to data received by the water works  corporation  during
 the preceding calendar year.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09728-03-7

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