Authorizes utility corporations, telegraph and telephone corporations, and cable television corporations to provide notice of bills to third parties at the request of the customer.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5794
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 4, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. KAVANAGH, COLTON, JAFFEE, PERRY, RIVERA, ROSEN-
THAL, CAHILL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GIGLIO, GLICK, GOTT-
FRIED, LUPARDO, MAGEE, PEOPLES-STOKES, SALADINO, SKARTADOS, ZEBROWSKI
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authori-
ties and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public service law and the general business law, in
relation to third party notification
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 40 of the public service law, as amended by chapter
2 631 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 40. Voluntary third-party [notice prior to termination of service]
4 notification. 1. Every utility corporation or municipality shall permit
5 a residential customer to designate a third-party to receive notice of
6 the total amount due or past due on all bills, the amounts of any
7 payments paid by or on behalf of such residential customer, and copies
8 of all notices relating to termination of service [or] and notices
9 relating to collection of amounts due sent to such residential customer,
10 provided that the designated third-party indicates in writing a willing-
11 ness to receive such notices.
12 2. Every utility corporation or municipality shall permit a landlord,
13 upon written request of both the landlord and tenant, to designate a
14 third-party to be notified of all requests for discontinuance of service
15 to units owned by such landlord.
16 § 2. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 393-f
17 to read as follows:
18 § 393-f. Voluntary third-party notification. 1. Every telegraph or
19 telephone corporation, cable television corporation, cellular phone
20 company, or municipality shall permit a residential customer to desig-
21 nate a third-party to receive notice of the total amount due or past due
22 on all bills, the amounts of any payments paid by or on behalf of such
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 residential customer, and copies of all notices relating to termination
2 of service and notices relating to collection of amounts due sent to
3 such residential customer, provided that the designated third-party
4 indicates in writing a willingness to receive such notices.
5 2. Every telegraph or telephone corporation, cable television corpo-
6 ration, cellular phone company, or municipality shall permit a landlord,
7 upon written request of both the landlord and tenant, to designate a
8 third-party to be notified of all requests for discontinuance of service
9 to units owned by such landlord.
10 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
11 have become a law.
