§ 76. Rates charged veteran organizations, religious bodies and
community residences. No gas corporation, electric corporation or
municipality shall, directly or indirectly, charge, demand, collect or
receive from any post or hall owned or leased by a not-for-profit
corporation that is a veterans' organization, or corporation or
association organized and conducted in good faith for religious
purposes, including the operation by such corporation or association of
a school, notwithstanding that secular subjects are taught at such
school, or from a community residence as defined in subdivision
twenty-eight, twenty-eight-a or twenty-eight-b of section 1.03 of the
mental hygiene law, provided, however, that such residence shall be
operated by a not-for-profit corporation and if supervisory staff is on
site on a twenty-four hour per day basis, that the residence provides
living accommodations for fourteen or fewer residents, a rate,
regardless of the type of service offered, for any gas or electric
service utilized exclusively in connection with such veteran
organization or for such religious purposes or utilized exclusively at
such community residence greater than the rates or charges charged,
demanded, collected or received by such gas corporation, electric
corporation or municipality from domestic consumers receiving
single-phase service within the same village, town or municipality.