STATE OF NEW YORK
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4441
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 5, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- 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 utility rates
charged to not-for-profit organized sports programs for youth
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, religious bodies [and],
4 community residences and not-for-profit organized sports programs for
5 youth. 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, or corporation or association organized and conducted
9 in good faith for religious purposes, including the operation by such
10 corporation or association of a school, notwithstanding that secular
11 subjects are taught at such school, or from a community residence as
12 defined in subdivision twenty-eight, twenty-eight-a or twenty-eight-b of
13 section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law, provided, however, that such
14 residence shall be operated by a not-for-profit corporation and if
15 supervisory staff is on site on a twenty-four hour per day basis, that
16 the residence provides living accommodations for fourteen or fewer resi-
17 dents, or from a not-for-profit organized sports program for youth, a
18 rate, regardless of the type of service offered, for any gas or electric
19 service utilized exclusively in connection with such [veteran] veterans'
20 organization or for such religious purposes or utilized exclusively at
21 such community residence or used by a not-for-profit organized sports
22 program for youth greater than the rates or charges charged, demanded,
23 collected or received by such gas corporation, electric corporation or
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 municipality from domestic consumers receiving single-phase service
2 within the same village, town or municipality.
3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
4 have become a law.
