Senate Bill S1228

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to the collection of charges for heat-related residential utility service

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Housing, Construction And Community Development 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

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2013-S1228 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A938
Current Committee:
Senate Housing, Construction And Community Development
Law Section:
Multiple Dwelling Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §79, Mult Dwell L; amd §173, Mult Res L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S5063, A7354
2011-2012: S1383, A739
2015-2016: A2329
2017-2018: A660
2019-2020: A2417
2021-2022: A3524

2013-S1228 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the collection of charges for heat-related residential utility service.

2013-S1228 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S1228 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  1228

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. PERKINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction  and
  Community Development

AN  ACT  to  amend  the multiple dwelling law and the multiple residence
  law, in relation to the collection of charges for  heat-related  resi-
  dential utility service

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

  Section 1. Legislative findings and  intent.  The  legislature  hereby
finds  that  assessment  and  collection  by multiple dwelling owners of
separate charges for electricity, electric  service,  natural  gas,  and
natural gas service or other fuel used to heat living quarters is not in
the public interest and should be prohibited.
  S  2.  Subdivision  1  of  section 79 of the multiple dwelling law, as
amended by chapter 225 of the laws  of  1982,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  1. Every multiple dwelling exceeding two stories in height and erected
after  April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, and every garden-
type maisonette dwelling project erected after April  eighteenth,  nine-
teen  hundred  fifty-four,  shall  be  provided  with heat. On and after
November first, nineteen hundred  fifty-nine,  every  multiple  dwelling
shall  be  provided  with  heat or the equipment or facilities therefor.
During the months between October first and May thirty-first, such  heat
and  the  equipment  or  facilities  shall be sufficient to maintain the
minimum temperatures required by local law,  ordinance,  rule  or  regu-
lation,  in  all  portions  of  the dwelling used or occupied for living
purposes provided, however, that such minimum temperatures shall  be  as
follows:    (a)  sixty-eight degrees Fahrenheit during the hours between
six o'clock in the morning and ten o'clock in the evening, whenever  the
outdoor  temperature falls below fifty-five degrees Fahrenheit, notwith-

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

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