S 6841: Relates to the water board's power to fix, revise, charge and collect and enforce the payment of fees, rates, rents and other service charges for the use of, or services furnished, rendered, or made available.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6841 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE March 25, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to the New York city water board The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 1045-g of the public authorities 2 law, as amended by chapter 467 of the laws of 2001, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 4. To establish, fix, revise, charge and collect and enforce the 5 payment of all fees, rates, rents and other service charges for the use 6 of, or services furnished, rendered, or made available by the sewerage 7 system, water system, or both, as the case may be, owned by the water 8 board pursuant to this title in such amount at least sufficient at all 9 times so as to receive revenues which, together with other revenues 10 available to the board, if any, shall be at least sufficient at all 11 times so that such system or systems shall be placed on a self-sustain- 12 ing basis in accordance with section one thousand forty-five-j of this 13 title; provided, however, that the water board shall base such charges 14 upon the actual amount of water consumed, or wastewater discharged to 15 the sewer system, with no offset; and provided further that the water 16 board shall not establish a limit of less than [four] six years commenc- 17 ing from the date of the bill for services to challenge any fee, rate, 18 rent, or other service charges for the use of or services furnished by 19 the water and/or sewerage systems; any such challenge shall specifically 20 set forth the basis for such claim; and provided further that, with 21 respect to not-for-profit institutions, the challenge period shall be 22 ten years, which shall apply to all not-for-profit institutions who are 23 determined to have incurred such a bill for services prior to the effec- 24 tive date of this statute; 25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05225-01-5