STATE OF NEW YORK
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7571--B
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 19, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. THIELE, GARBARINO, MURRAY, PALUMBO, GRAF, LUPI-
NACCI, RAIA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corpo-
rations, Authorities and Commissions -- recommitted to the Committee
on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions in accordance with Assem-
bly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- again
reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law,in relation to method of
collection of charges by the Suffolk county water authority
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new
2 section 1078-f to read as follows:
3 § 1078-f. Charges by authority; method of collection. All rates, fees
4 and other charges for the use or availability of the facilities or
5 services or commodities provided or made available by the authority and
6 billed directly by the authority to the user or service recipient pursu-
7 ant to a classification of person adopted by the authority as herein
8 provided shall be a lien upon the real property upon which, or in
9 connection with which, services are provided or are made available, as
10 and from the first date fixed for a payment of such rates, fees and
11 other charges. Any such lien shall take precedence over all other liens,
12 or encumbrances, except taxes or assessments. The chief financial offi-
13 cer of the authority shall prepare and transmit to the receiver of taxes
14 and assessments, on or before the first day of November in each year, a
15 list of those properties using such facilities or for which such facili-
16 ties, services or commodities were provided or made available and from
17 which the payment of rates, fees and other charges are in arrears for a
18 period of ninety days or more after the last day fixed for payment of
19 such rates, fees and other charges without penalty. The list shall
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 contain a brief description of such properties, the names of the persons
2 or corporations liable to pay for the same, and the amount chargeable to
3 each, including penalties and interest, as applicable, computed to
4 December thirty-first of that year. The receiver of taxes and assess-
5 ments shall levy such sums against the properties liable and shall state
6 the amount thereof in a separate column in the annual tax rolls of the
7 county under the heading "water charge." Such amounts, excluding penal-
8 ties and interest imposed by the county when collected by the county
9 collector or receivers of taxes, shall be paid over to the chief finan-
10 cial officer of the authority. County imposed penalties and interest
11 shall be retained by the county collector or receiver of taxes which
12 shall become a part of the general funds of the county. All of the
13 provisions of the tax law of the state governing enforcement and
14 collection of unpaid taxes or assessments for special improvements not
15 inconsistent herewith shall apply to the collection of such unpaid
16 rates, rentals, fees and other charges.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
