STATE OF NEW YORK
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4349
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 2, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. LOPEZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Energy
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to rates charged
volunteer fire companies and volunteer ambulance companies
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 76 of the public service law, as amended by chapter
2 82 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 76. Rates charged veteran organizations, volunteer fire companies,
4 volunteer ambulance companies, religious bodies and community resi-
5 dences. No gas corporation, electric corporation or municipality shall,
6 directly or indirectly, charge, demand, collect or receive from any post
7 or hall owned or leased by a not-for-profit corporation that is a veter-
8 ans' organization, volunteer fire company, volunteer ambulance company
9 or corporation or association organized and conducted in good faith for
10 religious purposes, including the operation by such corporation or asso-
11 ciation of a school, notwithstanding that secular subjects are taught at
12 such school, or from a community residence as defined in subdivision
13 twenty-eight, twenty-eight-a or twenty-eight-b of section 1.03 of the
14 mental hygiene law, provided, however, that such residence shall be
15 operated by a not-for-profit corporation and if supervisory staff is on
16 site on a twenty-four hour per day basis, that the residence provides
17 living accommodations for fourteen or fewer residents, a rate, regard-
18 less of the type of service offered, for any gas or electric service
19 utilized exclusively in connection with such veteran organization,
20 volunteer fire company, volunteer ambulance company or for such reli-
21 gious purposes or utilized exclusively at such community residence
22 greater than the rates or charges charged, demanded, collected or
23 received by such gas corporation, electric corporation or municipality
24 from domestic consumers receiving single-phase service within the same
25 village, town or municipality.
26 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
27 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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