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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8082--A
                                                                Cal. No. 277
 
                               2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      May 31, 2011
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M. of A. CAHILL, SIMOTAS, LINARES, PALMESANO, AMEDORE --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY -- read once  and  referred  to
          the  Committee  on  Energy  -- passed by Assembly and delivered to the
          Senate, recalled from the Senate,  vote  reconsidered,  bill  amended,

          ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading
 
        AN  ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to certain criteria
          used to determine safe and adequate service
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 65 of the public service law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 14 to read as follows:
     3    14.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provisions of law, in determining or
     4  calculating the demand charges for a volunteer fire company  as  defined
     5  in  section one hundred of the general municipal law, no gas or electric
     6  corporation furnishing utility service shall  consider  the  demand  for
     7  service associated with a volunteer fire company's responses to emergen-

     8  cies.  The  department  is  authorized  and directed to promulgate regu-
     9  lations necessary to implement this subdivision which may include  regu-
    10  lations  relating  to  (a) record-keeping required by the volunteer fire
    11  company to document an emergency response including but not  limited  to
    12  the  date, time, and duration of such a response, (b) disclosure of such
    13  records to the department, the commission, or  other  necessary  parties
    14  for  the  purposes  of  verifying the emergency response and calculating
    15  demand charges, (c) the methods permitted for making adjustments to  the
    16  demand  charges of a volunteer fire company based on actual or projected
    17  emergency responses which may  include  a  credit,  cash  reimbursement,

    18  rebate, special rate, discount, negotiated agreement, reconciliation, or
    19  other  method, (d) the frequency of any adjustments to the charges which
    20  shall occur at least once per  calendar  year,  and  (e)  resolution  of
    21  disputes  between  a volunteer fire company and a gas or electric corpo-
    22  ration.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10799-03-2
        A. 8082--A                          2
 
     1    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
     2  have become a law.