Requires public utility companies to charge volunteer fire companies and volunteer ambulance corps the same rates, charges, etc. applicable to residential customers for the same services; prohibits recovery of revenue lost therefrom, from being recovered from ratepayers.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5520
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 27, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
cations
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to charges or fees
on volunteer ambulance corps and volunteer fire companies in certain
cases
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
2 116-a to read as follows:
3 § 116-a. Certain volunteer organizations to be treated as individual
4 customer; certain cases. No public utility company shall charge, impose
5 or collect from any volunteer ambulance corps or volunteer fire company
6 any rate, fee or charge not otherwise chargeable to an individual resi-
7 dential customer for the same or similar service.
8 § 2. Section 66 of the public service law is amended by adding a new
9 subdivision 29 to read as follows:
10 29. No revenue forgone by an electric corporation, as a result of
11 subjecting volunteer ambulance corps and volunteer fire companies with
12 rates or charges applicable to domestic consumers pursuant to section
13 one hundred sixteen-a of this chapter, shall be recovered from customers
14 of such corporation.
15 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
16 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05453-01-1
