STATE OF NEW YORK
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3932
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 31, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Energy
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to the rates charged
for electricity service to volunteer firefighter, ambulance, and emer-
gency service organizations
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 76-a to read as follows:
3 § 76-a. Rates charged volunteer emergency service organizations. No
4 gas corporation or electric corporation shall, directly or indirectly,
5 charge, demand, collect or receive from any volunteer firefighter compa-
6 ny, volunteer ambulance company, or volunteer emergency services compa-
7 ny, which is located in a county with a population of less than two
8 hundred fifty thousand, a rate for any gas or electric service utilized
9 exclusively in connection with such company greater than the rates or
10 charges charged, demanded, collected or received by such gas corporation
11 or electric corporation from any domestic residential consumer receiving
12 single-phase service within the same county.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
14 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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