STATE OF NEW YORK
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8723
IN SENATE
July 10, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring water
works corporations to post water supply statements online
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 3 of section 1152 of the public health
2 law, subdivision 1 as added by chapter 752 of the laws of 1986 and
3 subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 62 of the laws of 1998, are amended
4 to read as follows:
5 1. Each water works corporation shall provide a water supply statement
6 to its customers annually. The annual water supply statement shall
7 either be mailed to each customer or published in at least one newspaper
8 of general circulation in the area served by the water works corpo-
9 ration. If the statement is to be published in a newspaper, the water
10 works corporation shall provide ample notification by announcing the
11 publication date and newspaper name either on the customers bill or in
12 the newspaper in which the statement shall appear. A limited number of
13 additional copies, in a quantity to be determined by the water works
14 corporation, shall be provided to customers upon request. In addition,
15 the statement must be posted on the water works corporation's website,
16 if such exists, or be made available to the municipality or munici-
17 palities in which the water works corporation services to be posted on
18 such municipalities' website, if such exists.
19 3. The annual water supply statement shall be mailed or published, and
20 posted online on or before the thirty-first day of May of each year and
21 shall apply to data received by the water works corporation during the
22 preceding calendar year.
23 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
24 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD16900-01-0
