Bill Text: NY A08264 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that buildings of volunteer firefighters, emergency services, or ambulance squads in certain counties receive residential electricity rates.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-05-17 - held for consideration in energy [A08264 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A08264-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         8264
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 11, 2009
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       Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Energy
       AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to the rates charged
         for electricity service to volunteer firefighter, ambulance, and emer-
         gency service organizations
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a  new  section
    2  76-a to read as follows:
    3    S  76-A.  RATES  CHARGED VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS. NO
    4  GAS CORPORATION OR ELECTRIC CORPORATION SHALL, DIRECTLY  OR  INDIRECTLY,
    5  CHARGE, DEMAND, COLLECT OR RECEIVE FROM ANY VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER COMPA-
    6  NY,  VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE COMPANY, OR VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY SERVICES COMPA-
    7  NY, WHICH IS LOCATED IN A COUNTY WITH A  POPULATION  OF  LESS  THAN  TWO
    8  HUNDRED  FIFTY THOUSAND, A RATE FOR ANY GAS OR ELECTRIC SERVICE UTILIZED
    9  EXCLUSIVELY IN CONNECTION WITH SUCH COMPANY GREATER THAN  THE  RATES  OR
   10  CHARGES CHARGED, DEMANDED, COLLECTED OR RECEIVED BY SUCH GAS CORPORATION
   11  OR ELECTRIC CORPORATION FROM ANY DOMESTIC RESIDENTIAL CONSUMER RECEIVING
   12  SINGLE-PHASE SERVICE WITHIN THE SAME COUNTY.
   13    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
   14  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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