New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter C - Rates And Charges › Part 533 - Notices Of Discontinuance And Complaint Procedures › Section 533.8 - Discontinuance of service to entire multiple dwellings

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) No waterworks corporation shall
				  discontinue service to an entire multiple dwelling (as defined in the Multiple
				  Dwelling Law or the Multiple Residence Law) where the owner, person, firm or
				  corporation to whom or which the last preceding bill has been rendered, or from
				  whom or which the waterworks corporation has received payment therefor, has
				  failed to pay such utility bills, until it has complied with the following
				  procedure:
(1) The waterworks corporation must
				  give 15 days' written notice of its intention to so discontinue by personally
				  serving such notice on the owner of the premises affected or on the person,
				  firm, or corporation to whom or which the last preceding bill was rendered, or
				  from whom or which the utility has received payment therefor, and on the
				  superintendent or other person in charge of the building, if it can be readily
				  ascertained that there is such superintendent or other person in
				  charge.
(2) The waterworks
				  corporation must give 18 days' written notice to the owner, person, firm or
				  corporation specified in paragraph (1) of this subdivision if such notice is
				  mailed in a postpaid wrapper to the address of such person, firm or
				  corporation.
(3) In addition to the
				  notice prescribed by paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subdivision, 15 days'
				  written notice shall be posted in the public areas of such multiple dwelling,
				  and 18 days' notice shall be mailed to the "Occupant" of each unit in that
				  multiple dwelling, to the local health officer and director of the social
				  services district for the political subdivision in which the multiple dwelling
				  is located; if the multiple dwelling is located in a city or village, to the
				  mayor thereof, or if there be none, to the manager; or, if the multiple
				  dwelling is located in a town, then to the town supervisor; and to the county
				  executive of the county in which the multiple dwelling is located, or if there
				  be none, then to the chairman of such county's legislative body. Notice to the
				  mayors, managers, town supervisors, county executives, and chairmen of county
				  legislatures may be mailed to the persons specified therein or to their
				  designees. Notice to health officers, directors of social services, mayors,
				  managers, supervisors, county executives and chairmen of county legislatures
				  shall be repeated not more than four working days nor less than two working
				  days prior to such discontinuance.
(4) Whenever a notice of intention to
				  discontinue water service has been made pursuant to the provisions of this
				  section and obligations owed the waterworks corporation have been satisfied,
				  the waterworks corporation shall notify, in the same manner as it gave such
				  notice of intention, the occupant of each unit that the intention to
				  discontinue water service no longer exists.