Establishes the emergency water infrastructure repairs fund; provides funding to municipalities for the emergency repair of any municipal water infrastructure.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1399
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 15, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to establishing
the emergency water infrastructure repairs fund; and making an appro-
priation therefor
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 1285-v to read as follows:
3 § 1285-v. Emergency water infrastructure repairs fund. 1. There is
4 hereby established in the custody of the corporation an "emergency water
5 infrastructure repairs fund". The purpose of the fund shall be to
6 provide funding to municipalities for the emergency repair of any munic-
7 ipal water infrastructure.
8 2. For the purposes of this section, and notwithstanding any provision
9 of law to the contrary, as used in this section:
10 (a) "emergency" means a temporary condition of failure or inadequacy
11 of the water infrastructure of a municipality resulting from stress of
12 weather, convulsion of nature, fire, failure of power, mechanical break-
13 down, breakage or stoppage of mains and other portions of the water
14 system or sewage system;
15 (b) "fund" means the emergency water infrastructure repairs fund
16 established by this section;
17 (c) "sewage system" means any part of a wastewater disposal system,
18 including but not limited to all piping, drains, sewers, septic tanks,
19 distribution boxes, absorption fields, seepage pits, cesspools, and dry
20 wells, owned and operated by a municipality;
21 (d) "water infrastructure" means the sewage system and water system of
22 a municipality; and
23 (e) "water system" means and includes all the pipes, pumping stations,
24 elevated tanks and other structures and appurtenances necessary to the
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 delivery of water under pressure and owned and operated by a munici-
2 pality.
3 3. Moneys in the fund shall be segregated from all other funds of or
4 in the custody of the corporation. Moneys in the fund shall be used for
5 any authorized purpose of the fund as provided and in accordance with
6 the provisions of this section.
7 4. The sources of funds shall consist of all moneys collected there-
8 for, or moneys credited, appropriated or transferred thereto from any
9 other fund or source pursuant to law, or any other moneys made available
10 for the purposes of the fund.
11 5. Moneys in the fund may be invested by the corporation in accordance
12 with this title and pursuant to guidelines from time to time issued by
13 the corporation.
14 6. A municipality may make an application for funding for emergency
15 repairs, in a manner, form and timeframe and containing such information
16 as the corporation may require. The corporation shall establish such
17 application requirements and an expedited application review process to
18 provide funds in a timely manner.
19 7. The corporation shall promulgate regulations for the purpose of
20 carrying out its responsibilities under this section.
21 § 2. The legislature shall appropriate ten percent of any annual
22 appropriation for water and sewer infrastructure repairs to the emergen-
23 cy water infrastructure repairs fund as established pursuant to section
24 1285-v of the public authorities law.
25 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.