§ 1152. Annual water supply statement; delivery. 1. Each water works
corporation shall provide a water supply statement to its customers
annually. The annual water supply statement shall either be mailed to
each customer or published in at least one newspaper of general
circulation in the area served by the water works corporation. If the
statement is to be published in a newspaper, the water works corporation
shall provide ample notification by announcing the publication date and
newspaper name either on the customers bill or in the newspaper in which
the statement shall appear. A limited number of additional copies, in a
quantity to be determined by the water works corporation, shall be
provided to customers upon request. In addition, the statement must be
posted on the water works corporation's website, if such exists, or be
made available to the municipality or municipalities in which the water
works corporation services to be posted on such municipalities' website,
if such exists.

2. Each water works corporation shall also provide one copy of each
annual water supply statement to the commissioner and the state
commissioner of environmental conservation.

3. The annual water supply statement shall be mailed or published, and
posted online on or before the thirty-first day of May of each year and
shall apply to data received by the water works corporation during the
preceding calendar year.

4. The information required by subdivision four of section eleven
hundred fifty-one of this title for each source of water may be placed
in a supplement to the annual water supply statement instead of in the
main body of the statement; provided that:

(1) the statement provides such information for a representative
sampling of distribution point samples and a notice to the effect that
such information for each source of water is included in a supplement
available to each customer upon request from the water works
corporation; and

(2) the supplement is included in each copy of the water supply
statement provided to customers upon request under subdivision one of
this section and provided to commissioners under subdivision two of this
section; and

(3) the supplement shall be

(i) published in a notice at least one-half page in size, in one
newspaper of general circulation within the water district; or

(ii) made available on a public electronic bulletin board, along with
the supplements from the two prior years, if such prior supplements
exist, and notice of the availability of such information on a public
electronic bulletin board shall be clearly provided on each billing
statement and shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation
within the water district; or

(iii) made available at all New York state documents information
access centers, documents reference centers, documents depository
libraries and documents research depository libraries within the water
district and if no such libraries exist within the water district, at a
public library within the water district, and notice of the availability
of the supplement at such library of libraries shall be clearly provided
on each billing statement and shall be published in a newspaper of
general circulation within the water district.
Such supplement need not be included in the copy of the annual water
supply statement mailed to each customer or published under subdivision
one of this section.