STATE OF NEW YORK
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4224
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 11, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommu-
nications
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to reducing the
amount a utility can be assessed
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (g) of subdivision 2 of section 18-a of the
2 public service law, as amended by section 2 of part A of chapter 173 of
3 the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
4 (g) The total amount which may be charged to any public utility compa-
5 ny and the Long Island power authority under authority of this subdivi-
6 sion for any state fiscal year shall not exceed one-third of one per
7 centum of such public utility company's or authority's gross operating
8 revenues derived from intrastate utility operations in the last preced-
9 ing calendar year, or other twelve month period as determined by the
10 chairman; provided, however, that no corporation or person that is
11 subject to the jurisdiction of the commission only with respect to safe-
12 ty, or the power authority of the state of New York, shall be subject to
13 the general assessment provided for under this subdivision.
14 Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this section, for
15 telephone corporations as defined in subdivision seventeen of section
16 two of this article, the total amount which may be charged such corpo-
17 rations for department expenses under the authority of subdivision one
18 of this section for any state fiscal year shall not exceed one-third of
19 one percentum of such corporation's gross operating revenue, over and
20 above five hundred thousand dollars, derived from intrastate utility
21 operations in the last preceding calendar year, or other twelve month
22 period as determined by the chairman.
23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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