STATE OF NEW YORK
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5001
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 21, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
AN ACT to amend the local finance law, in relation to providing a period
of probable usefulness for lead service line replacement programs as a
capital asset
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph a of section 11.00 of the local finance law is
2 amended by adding a new subdivision 109 to read as follows:
3 109. Lead service line replacement programs established by a munici-
4 pality, school district or district corporation, including, but not
5 limited to programs that inventory, design and replace publicly owned
6 and privately owned lead service lines within an established water
7 system, thirty years. As used in this subdivision, "lead service line"
8 means a service line made in whole or in part of lead, which connects a
9 water main to a building inlet. A lead service line may be owned by the
10 water system, a property owner, or both. A lead gooseneck, pigtail, or
11 connector is considered a lead service line, regardless of the service
12 line material to which a lead gooseneck, pigtail, or connector is
13 attached. Gooseneck, pigtail, or connector means a short section of
14 piping, typically not exceeding two feet, which can be bent and used for
15 connections between rigid service piping. A galvanized iron or steel
16 service line is considered a lead service line if it ever was or is
17 currently downstream of any lead service line or service line of unknown
18 material.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08724-01-3
