Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Jan 24, 2012 |
referred to energy and telecommunications |
Senate Bill S6300
2011-2012 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Energy And Telecommunications Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2011-S6300 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A8849
- Current Committee:
- Senate Energy And Telecommunications
- Law Section:
- Public Services
2011-S6300 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Authorizes the public service commission, upon application by a municipality, to order costs for public fire protection to be charged to all customer classes located in such municipality; all costs allocated to the public fire protection function of a water-works corporation including costs associated with fire hydrants such as capital costs, maintenance repair and operating expenses, rental and access charges are eligible to be apportioned to customers in a municipality.
2011-S6300 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S6300 TITLE OF BILL: An act in relation to authorizing the public service commission, upon application by a municipality, to order costs for public fire protection to be charged to all customer classes located in such municipality PURPOSE: To have all water rate payers pay municipality by a private water company. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 authorizes a municipality, upon an affirmative resolution of the municipality, to apply to the public service commission to have the costs for public fire protection it is charged by a water works corporation to be charged to all customers across all customer classes. It also includes definitions. Section 2 provides for an immediate effective date. JUSTIFICATION: Municipalities that buy water from a water works corporation have a separate line item in their budgets to pay for fire protection costs
2011-S6300 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6300 I N S E N A T E January 24, 2012 ___________ Introduced by Sen. OPPENHEIMER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommu- nications AN ACT in relation to authorizing the public service commission, upon application by a municipality, to order costs for public fire protection to be charged to all customer classes located in such muni- cipality THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. 1. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a municipality may apply to the public service commission to have any costs for public fire protection it is charged by a water-works corporation to instead be charged to all customers across all customer classes located in the municipality provided the municipality has held a public hearing on the matter and has adopted a resolution and determined by a majority vote of the total voting strength of its governing body that it is in the over- all public interest to have such costs charged to all customers across all customer classes. Within 120 days after receiving an application pursuant to this act, the public service commission is empowered and directed to issue an order requiring that costs for public fire protection be included in the rates charged to all customer classes and apportioned among all customers located in the municipality and that such municipality shall not be charged separately or additionally for costs for public fire protection. The water-works corporation shall apply to the public service commission for an increased water rate to recover such increase in fire protection costs. The public service commission shall have the power to request any information that it may deem necessary from the water-works corporation or municipality so that it may issue an order as required by this section and may require that such information or application be in the form and manner as the commis- sion may request. 2. Definitions. For purposes of this act: a. "costs for public fire protection" means all costs allocated to the public fire protection function of a water-works corporation including EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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