Assembly Bill A957

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Provides the New York city water board shall not establish a limit of less than six years to challenge any service charges for the use of or services furnished by the water board

download bill text pdf

Sponsored By

Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

Do you support this bill?

Please enter your contact information

Home address is used to determine the senate district in which you reside. Your support or opposition to this bill is then shared immediately with the senator who represents you.

Optional services from the NY State Senate:

Create an account. An account allows you to officially support or oppose key legislation, sign petitions with a single click, and follow issues, committees, and bills that matter to you. When you create an account, you agree to this platform's terms of participation.

Include a custom message for your Senator? (Optional)

Enter a message to your senator. Many New Yorkers use this to share the reasoning behind their support or opposition to the bill. Others might share a personal anecdote about how the bill would affect them or people they care about.
Actions

co-Sponsors

multi-Sponsors

2011-A957 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1045-g, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A1323
2013-2014: A1472
2015-2016: A4678
2017-2018: A7054
2019-2020: A3081
2021-2022: A4086
2023-2024: A1374

2011-A957 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides the NYC water board shall not establish a limit of less than six years to challenge any fee, rate, rent or other service charges for the use of or services furnished by the water board and/or sewerage systems.

2011-A957 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   957

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 5, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. COLTON, ROBINSON, CYMBROWITZ, V. LOPEZ, PHEFFER
  -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, ENGLEBRIGHT, HEASTIE,  JACOBS,
  MILLMAN,  PERRY, TOBACCO -- read once and referred to the Committee on
  Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to  establishing
  a  time  limit to challenge the New York City water board fees, rates,
  rents and other service charges

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision 4 of section 1045-g of the public authorities
law, as amended by chapter 467 of the laws of 2001, is amended  to  read
as follows:
  4.  To  establish,  fix,  revise,  charge  and collect and enforce the
payment of all fees, rates, rents and other service charges for the  use
of, or services furnished by the sewerage system, water system, or both,
as the case may be, so as to receive revenues which, together with other
revenues available to the board, if any, shall be at least sufficient at
all  times so that such system or systems shall be placed on a self-sus-
taining basis in accordance with section one  thousand  forty-five-j  of
this title; provided, however that the water board shall not establish a
limit of less than [four] SIX years commencing from the date of the bill
for  services  to challenge any fee, rate, rent or other service charges
for the use of or  services  furnished  by  the  water  and/or  sewerage
systems;  any  such challenge shall specifically set forth the basis for
such claim;
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04860-01-1

Comments

Open Legislation is a forum for New York State legislation. All comments are subject to review and community moderation is encouraged.

Comments deemed off-topic, commercial, campaign-related, self-promotional; or that contain profanity, hate or toxic speech; or that link to sites outside of the nysenate.gov domain are not permitted, and will not be published. Attempts to intimidate and silence contributors or deliberately deceive the public, including excessive or extraneous posting/posts, or coordinated activity, are prohibited and may result in the temporary or permanent banning of the user. Comment moderation is generally performed Monday through Friday. By contributing or voting you agree to the Terms of Participation and verify you are over 13.

Create an account. An account allows you to sign petitions with a single click, officially support or oppose key legislation, and follow issues, committees, and bills that matter to you. When you create an account, you agree to this platform's terms of participation.