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New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter A - SERVICE › Part 503 - Service Standards › Section 503.8 - Lost and unaccounted-for water

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(a) Lost and unaccounted-for water. Each
				  water corporation shall maintain records on an annual basis of nonrevenue
				  producing water use and shall use prudent means to minimize lost and
				  unaccounted-for water.
(b)
				  Monitoring requirements. Each water corporation shall notify this department
				  when annual nonrevenue producing water use, which would include lost and
				  unaccounted-for water as well as other nonmetered uses of water, exceeds 18
				  percent of annual production. This notification will also include specific
				  measures being taken to reduce nonrevenue producing water use to acceptable
				  levels and a description of any significant event that impacted this
				  level.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter A - SERVICE › Part 503 - Service Standards › Section 503.9 - Maps and records

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(a) Maps and
				  records.
(1) Each water corporation shall
				  maintain accurate, to scale, up-to-date maps which shall show the service
				  territory.
(2) Each water
				  corporation shall also maintain accurate, to scale, up-to-date supply diagrams
				  and distribution maps which shall, at a minimum, include the relative locations
				  and capacities of major sources of supply and production facilities, pumping
				  stations, treatment plants, storage facilities, and transmission and
				  distribution mains. The water corporation shall retain such maps and other
				  information, as necessary, to enable it to promptly and accurately identify the
				  location of mains, services, valves, hydrants and blow-offs.
(3) Records shall be kept for each valve,
				  hydrant and service connection. Records for valves and service connections
				  (including curbstops) will include the size and location while records for
				  hydrants will include the size, location, manufacturer and identification
				  number.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter A - SERVICE › Part 503 - Service Standards › Section 503.10 - Inspection of new plant facilities

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(a) Inspection of new plant facilities. No
				  plant additions including backbone plant, storage, transmission and
				  distribution mains shall be placed in service and no additional customers may
				  be served until such additions have been inspected by qualified water
				  corporation personnel under the direct supervision of an engineer licensed to
				  practice in the State of New York. Construction of plant not being done by the
				  water corporation which will become its property, such as construction by a
				  real estate developer, will be inspected by qualified water corporation
				  personnel or a representative of the water corporation under the direct
				  supervision of an engineer licensed to practice in the State of New York and
				  the water corporation shall be reimbursed for the costs of such inspection by
				  the developer who is building the plant.
(b) Monitoring requirements. Inspection
				  reports, which will include job identification, materials installed by billing
				  units (where applicable) such as linear feet of pipe, number of valves and size
				  etc., location of plant by physical measurements in the field and description
				  of progress and quality of work performed, shall be maintained in the files for
				  each job inspected.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter A - SERVICE › Part 503 - Service Standards › Section 503.11 - Maintenance of records

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All records related to these service standards shall be
					 available for inspection by staff of the department at an office of the water
					 corporation in the county in which the waterworks is located. In addition,
					 these records shall be kept on file for a period of six
					 years.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter A - SERVICE › Part 504 - Discontinuance Of Service By Consumers › Section 504.1 - Notice

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Any customer may discontinue water service by giving
					 written notice to the company, said notice to be in accordance with the
					 schedule of the company filed with the Public Service Commission, which shall
					 provide for not more than 30 days' notice of said
					 discontinuance.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter A - SERVICE › Part 504 - Discontinuance Of Service By Consumers › Section 504.2 - Liability to cease

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All liability for charges for service rendered after the
					 discontinuance of service as herein provided for shall cease.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter A - SERVICE › Part 504 - Discontinuance Of Service By Consumers › Section 504.3 - Refund of advance payment

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Upon the discontinuance of service, as herein provided for,
					 the company shall promptly refund to the customer the pro rata amount of every
					 advance payment for any service after said discontinuance, said refund to be
					 based upon the relation of the period after the discontinuance of service to
					 the entire period for which said advance payment was made, after deducting the
					 proper charge for any water consumed.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter A - SERVICE › Part 504 - Discontinuance Of Service By Consumers › Section 504.4 - Classes of service not affected

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The above sections as to notice of discontinuance of
					 service and refunds for advance payments do not apply to the following classes
					 of service when such services are the only ones rendered:
(a) seasonal occupancy;
(b) private fire protection;
(c) air conditioning or
				  refrigeration.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter A - SERVICE › Part 510 - Consumer Deposits-waterworks Corporations › Section 510.1 - Records

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Each and every waterworks corporation holding consumer
					 deposits shall keep such records as will show, with respect to each
					 deposit:
(a) the name of the consumer
				  making the deposit;
(b) the address
				  (including street and number) of each depositor, if known;
(c) the date of receipt of the
				  deposit;
(d) the amount of the
				  deposit;
(e) the interest accrued
				  upon the deposit to be entered biennially or more frequently;
(f) all credits of interest made in reduction
				  of amounts billed for service rendered, and the dates of such
				  credits;
(g) all payments of
				  interest made on each deposit, and the dates of such payments;
(h) deductions representing sums due and
				  unpaid to the corporation when depositor ceased to be a consumer, and the date
				  thereof, together with such other information as any such corporation may deem
				  necessary to make a complete record of each deposit.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter A - SERVICE › Part 510 - Consumer Deposits-waterworks Corporations › Section 510.2 - Index of consumers

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Each and every waterworks corporation holding consumer
					 deposits shall keep, in addition to the records prescribed in section
					 510.1  of this
					 Part, an index or indices, alphabetically or geographically arranged, which
					 shall show at all times the name of each consumer from whom a deposit has been
					 exacted, and whose said deposit or any part thereof remains unpaid, with
					 appropriate reference in such index to the consumer's
					 account.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter A - SERVICE › Part 510 - Consumer Deposits-waterworks Corporations › Section 510.3 - Interest

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Each and every waterworks corporation holding consumer
					 deposits shall allow to each depositor simple interest on the amount deposited.
					 The interest rate to be applied to the amount deposited shall be a composite
					 yield of intermediate term, A-rated corporate bonds, as reported in financial
					 publications, less costs of administering deposits of 1.75 per centum per
					 annum. The rate shall be updated effective January 1st each year, based upon
					 yield information available on the first Friday of October of the preceding
					 year. The commission will issue an advisory letter which publicizes the
					 information to assure consistency. Each corporation shall credit such interest
					 to each depositor whose deposit shall have been held for one or more years by
					 paying such interest in cash or deducting it from the amount of a bill for
					 water service rendered such depositor thereafter, but not later than the next
					 bill rendered after the next succeeding first day of October and at each
					 one-year interval thereafter.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter A - SERVICE › Part 510 - Consumer Deposits-waterworks Corporations › Section 510.4 - Application of deposit to unpaid bill

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Each and every waterworks corporation holding consumer
					 deposits shall render to each depositor, when and as his deposit is applied to
					 an unpaid bill or bills, a statement showing:
(a) the bill or bills then due and
				  unpaid;
(b) the amount
				  thereof;
(c) the amount of the
				  deposit, together with the interest accrued thereon and the period covered
				  thereby; and
(d) the balance of the
				  bill or bills remaining unpaid or the balance of the deposit and interest
				  thereon remaining to the credit of the depositor.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter A - SERVICE › Part 510 - Consumer Deposits-waterworks Corporations › Section 510.5 - Refund

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Each and every waterworks corporation holding consumer
					 deposits shall render to each depositor, when his deposit is refunded, a
					 statement showing the amount of the deposit and the date thereof; the amount of
					 unpaid interest accrued thereon to date of the refund and the period covered
					 thereby; and the amount of deposit and interest refunded. Each depositor upon
					 becoming entitled thereto either by reason of nondelinquency for one year or
					 upon ceasing to be a consumer may withdraw his deposit and all interest thereon
					 which has not been refunded or credited against bills for service upon
					 surrendering his deposit certificate (or submitting satisfactory proof of
					 ownership of the deposit or of the right to receive the same) and the payment
					 of all bills for which such deposit is security. The "prudent" period of
					 deposit retention, referred to in Public Service Law, section
					 117, may not exceed two years of
					 nondelinquency in the payment of bills rendered.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter A - SERVICE › Part 510 - Consumer Deposits-waterworks Corporations › Section 510.6 - Certificate of deposit

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Each and every waterworks corporation holding consumer
					 deposits shall issue to every consumer from whom a deposit may be exacted a
					 certificate of deposit for which shall be used a good quality of paper and on
					 which certificate there shall be printed, in addition to the receipt for the
					 moneys deposited, the substance of the following:
THIS RECEIPT IS NOT NEGOTIABLE OR TRANSFERABLE
Interest will be allowed on this deposit so long as it
					 shall remain with the corporation. When this deposit has been held for one
					 year, interest thereon will be paid in cash or credited on a bill for service
					 rendered the depositor thereafter, but not later than the first bill rendered,
					 after the next succeeding first day of October and at the expiration of each
					 succeeding one-year period.
Preserve this receipt to be surrendered when deposit is
					 returned.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter A - SERVICE › Part 510 - Consumer Deposits-waterworks Corporations › Section 510.7 - Refund without certificate of deposit

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Each and every waterworks corporation holding consumer
					 deposits shall provide reasonable ways and means, in such manner as such
					 corporation may elect, whereby a depositor who makes application for the return
					 of his deposit and is entitled to the return thereof, but who is unable to
					 produce the original certificate of deposit or receipt, may not be deprived of
					 his rights.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter A - SERVICE › Part 510 - Consumer Deposits-waterworks Corporations › Section 510.8 - Circular containing terms of deposit

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Each and every waterworks corporation holding consumer
					 deposits shall keep on hand for distribution to its consumers printed
					 circulars, over its corporate or business name, which circulars shall be
					 entitled "TERMS AND CONDITIONS UPON WHICH CONSUMERS' DEPOSITS ARE COLLECTED,
					 HELD, AND MAY BE WITHDRAWN" and which shall contain a copy of this Part, a copy
					 of Public Service Law, section
					 117 (as added by L. 1976, ch. 557) and such
					 other pertinent information as the corporation may elect. Every such
					 corporation, prior to or upon exacting a deposit, shall furnish a copy of said
					 circular to the consumer or applicant for service from whom a deposit is
					 demanded.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter A - SERVICE › Part 510 - Consumer Deposits-waterworks Corporations › Section 510.9 - Special rule for residential customers who transfer dwelling units

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No waterworks corporation may require a deposit of a
					 residential customer where such customer transfers residences within such
					 corporation's service territory and continues service with such corporation if
					 the residential customer was not required to post a security deposit or had a
					 security deposit returned pursuant to section 117  of the Public Service
					 Law.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter A - SERVICE › Part 510 - Consumer Deposits-waterworks Corporations › Section 510.10 - Exceptions

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Sections
					 510.4 
					 -510.9 do not apply to residential customers of any waterworks corporation that
					 is covered by Part 14 of this Title.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter B - Securities › Part 520 - Notice Of Issuance By Waterworks Corporations Of Stocks, Bonds, Notes Or Other Evidences Of Indebtedness › Section 520.1 - Contents of notice

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Pursuant to the provisions of section 89-f  of the Public Service Law, as amended,
					 every waterworks corporation subject to said section, after the issuance or
					 assumption of stocks, bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness,
					 including bond, notes or other evidences of indebtedness payable on demand or
					 within less than 12 months, shall file with this commission a notice of such
					 transaction within the time and in the form specified in the following:
(a) Name of reporting utility (indicate
				  whether corporation, partnership, individual, or other party).
(b) Address of reporting utility.
(c) The name of the official responsible for
				  statements submitted and to whom should be addressed any correspondence
				  relating thereto.
(d) Date of the
				  report.
(e) Period covered by the
				  report (both dates inclusive where applicable).
(f) Information regarding securities or
				  obligations issued.
(1) Pursuant to authority
				  granted by order of this commission:
(i)
				  Notice of issuance shall be filed within the period specified in the order
				  approving the issuance of the securities or obligations.
(ii) Issuance of capital stock, in exchange
				  for convertible securities issued pursuant to commission authorization, may be
				  reported annually, not later than 60 days after the end of the calendar year
				  covered by the report; such report to show only the number of shares of such
				  stock issued during such calendar year, the securities retired by reason of the
				  exchange, and the additional consideration realized, if any, by reason of the
				  exchange.
(iii) For each type of
				  security or obligation, include the following information, as appropriate:
(a) Designation of security--classified
				  according to distinguishing characteristics, such as class of stock of par
				  value or no par value and dividend rate of preferred stock, or character of
				  debt obligation and interest rate or maturity date or other distinguishing
				  characteristic.
(b) Date of actual
				  issue or assumption.
(c) Number of
				  shares of each class of stock or principal amount of each debt obligation
				  issued.
(d) Consideration realized
				  from each class or type of security (if consideration is other than cash, give
				  description and basis of value).
(e) Case number and date of order of this
				  commission under which the security issue was authorized.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter B - Securities › Part 520 - Notice Of Issuance By Waterworks Corporations Of Stocks, Bonds, Notes Or Other Evidences Of Indebtedness › Section 520.2 - Issuance not heretofore reported

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Every such public utility which has not filed with this
					 commission a notice of the issuance of any stocks, bonds, notes, or other
					 evidences of indebtedness now outstanding and issued with or without the
					 approval of this commission shall, within 30 days from the date of service of a
					 copy of this order, file a notice of each such transaction in the form
					 prescribed herein.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter C - Rates And Charges › Part 531 - Penalties And Discounts-consumers' Bills-waterworks Corporations › Section 531.1 - Late payment charge

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Any corporation, partnership or person furnishing water
					 service may impose a late payment charge, either one-time or continuing
					 interest type, because of the failure of any customer to pay a bill for such
					 service within a specified period therein stated. This section does not apply
					 to residential customers of any waterworks corporation that is covered by Part
					 14 of this Title.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter C - Rates And Charges › Part 531 - Penalties And Discounts-consumers' Bills-waterworks Corporations › Section 531.2 - Contents of bill

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If any corporation, partnership or person furnishing water
					 service elects to impose a one-time charge for late payment for such service,
					 it shall show on each bill the amount billed, the amount that will be due,
					 including the late payment charge, when the late payment charge becomes
					 applicable. This section does not apply to residential customers of any
					 waterworks corporation that is covered by Part 14 of this
					 Title.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter C - Rates And Charges › Part 531 - Penalties And Discounts-consumers' Bills-waterworks Corporations › Section 531.3 - Amount of late payment charge

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If a one-time late payment charge may be imposed, it shall
					 not exceed 10 percent on the first $10 (except that a minimum charge may be
					 made of not to exceed 15 cents per bill), plus not to exceed three percent on
					 that portion of the bill over $10.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter C - Rates And Charges › Part 531 - Penalties And Discounts-consumers' Bills-waterworks Corporations › Section 531.4 - Contents of rate schedules

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In case a one-time late payment charge is imposed, the rate
					 schedules shall show the rates for service, the amount due including the late
					 payment charge when the charge becomes applicable, and the period during which
					 the bill may be paid without the imposition of the late payment
					 charge.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter C - Rates And Charges › Part 531 - Penalties And Discounts-consumers' Bills-waterworks Corporations › Section 531.5 - Increase in rates prohibited

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
No corporation, partnership or person furnishing gas,
					 electric, steam or water service shall so revise or redraft its rate schedules
					 in compliance with this Part as to increase the rates for service applicable to
					 any customer as compared with the rates now in effect without special
					 permission of the commission.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter C - Rates And Charges › Part 532 - Advance Billing-certain Waterworks Corporations › Section 532.1 - Quarterly and semiannually

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
All waterworks corporations having average annual water
					 operating revenues of $100,000 or over are hereby prohibited from rendering
					 bills to consumers for periods longer than quarterly in advance of service,
					 except companies billing semiannually in the middle of the service
					 period.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter C - Rates And Charges › Part 532 - Advance Billing-certain Waterworks Corporations › Section 532.2 - Fire protection

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
This Part shall not apply to bills for public and private
					 fire protection.
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 533.1 - Exceptions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
This Part does not apply to residential customers of any
					 waterworks corporation that is covered by Part 14 of this
					 Title.
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 533.2 - Notice of discontinuance-time

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) No waterworks corporation shall
				  discontinue the supply of water for nonpayment of bills rendered for service or
				  failure to post a required deposit until either:
(1) at least 15 days after written notice has
				  been served personally upon the proper person or persons as hereinafter
				  defined;
(2) at least 18 days after
				  mailing written notice in postpaid wrapper to the address of such proper person
				  or persons; or
(3) at least 15 days
				  after the proper person or persons has either signed for or refused a
				  registered letter containing written notice, mailed to the address of such
				  proper person or persons.
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 533.3 - Notice of discontinuance-format

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(a) Every notice indicating discontinuance of
				  service shall:
(1) clearly indicate in
				  nontechnical language:
(i) the reason for
				  service discontinuance;
(ii) the
				  total amount required to be paid by the customer to avoid discontinuance of
				  service, indicating the amount for which the customer's account is in arrears
				  or the required deposit, if any, which must be posted by the customer, or
				  both;
(iii) a method whereby the
				  customer may tender payment of the full sum due and owing, including any
				  required deposit, to avoid the discontinuance of his service;
(iv) the availability of company procedures
				  to consider customer complaints prior to discontinuance, including the address
				  and phone number of the office of the waterworks company the customer may
				  contact in reference to his account; and
(v) the earliest date on which discontinuance
				  may be attempted; and
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 533.4 - No discontinuance without verification of delinquent account

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(a) No waterworks
				  corporation shall discontinue service for nonpayment of bills rendered or for
				  failure to post a required deposit unless:
(1) it shall have verified that payment has
				  not been received at any office of the company or at any office of an
				  authorized collection agent through the end of the notice period required by
				  this Part; and
(2) it shall have
				  verified on the day disconnection occurs that payment has not been posted to
				  the customer's account as of the opening of business on that day, or, shall
				  have complied with procedures established pursuant to section 533.4(b)  of this
				  Part.
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 533.5 - Rapid posting of payments in response to notices of discontinuance

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Every waterworks corporation shall take reasonable steps to
					 establish procedures to insure that any payments made in response to notices of
					 discontinuance, when the customer brings the fact that such a notice has been
					 issued to the attention of the company or its collection agents, shall
					 either:
(a) be posted to the
				  customer's account on the day payment is received; or
(b) be processed in some manner so that
				  discontinuance will not occur.
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 533.6 - No discontinuance on saturday, sunday, public holiday, or day on which the main business office of the company is not open for business

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
No waterworks corporation shall discontinue service to any
					 person for nonpayment of bills or for failure to post a required deposit on a
					 Saturday, Sunday, public holiday, or day on which the main business office of
					 the company is not open for business. For purposes of this section, "public
					 holiday" shall refer to those holidays enumerated in the General Construction
					 Law.
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 533.7 - No additional notice required when payment by check is subsequently dishonored

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Receipt of a subsequently dishonored negotiable instrument
					 in response to a notice of discontinuance shall not constitute payment of the
					 customer's account, and no waterworks corporation shall be required to issue
					 additional notice prior to discontinuance.
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 533.10 - Publicizing complaint procedures

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Every waterworks corporation shall, by a
				  notice accompanying a regular bill or otherwise, advise each of its customers
				  annually, unless otherwise directed by the commission, of the procedures
				  available to the customer to register complaints in regard to service or
				  disputed bills. Such notice shall clearly state the means by which a complaint
				  can be made to the company and shall also advise the customer that, if after
				  contacting the company the customer remains dissatisfied, he may contact the
				  New York State Public Service Commission. Such notice shall further state that
				  the Public Service Commission has a staff available to give assistance in such
				  matters, and shall also specify an appropriate address of the Public Service
				  Commission.
(b) Prior to
				  circulating the notice required by subdivision (a) of this section, each
				  utility shall submit to the commission for its approval the form of such notice
				  and the intended program for its distribution.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter C - Rates And Charges › Part 534 - Interest On Customer Overpayments To Water Utilities › Section 534.1 - General

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Every water corporation shall provide interest on customer
					 overpayments according to the standards and criteria set forth in this
					 Part.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter C - Rates And Charges › Part 534 - Interest On Customer Overpayments To Water Utilities › Section 534.2 - Standards

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
A customer overpayment is defined as payment by the
					 customer to the utility in excess of the correct charge for water service
					 supplied to the customer which was caused by erroneous billing by the
					 utility.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter C - Rates And Charges › Part 534 - Interest On Customer Overpayments To Water Utilities › Section 534.3 - Rate of interest

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The rate of interest on such amounts shall be the greater
					 of the unadjusted customer deposit rate or the applicable late payment rate, if
					 any, for the service classification under which the customer was billed.
					 Interest shall be paid from the date when the customer overpayment was made,
					 adjusted for any changes in the deposit rate or late payment rate, and
					 compounded monthly, until the date when the overpayment was
					 refunded.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter C - Rates And Charges › Part 534 - Interest On Customer Overpayments To Water Utilities › Section 534.4 - Limitations

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This Part applies to refunds returned to customers after
					 the effective date of these rules. No water corporation shall be required to
					 pay interest on customer overpayments that are refunded within 30 days after
					 such overpayment is received by the water corporation.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 540 - Annual Reports-municipal Water Systems › Section 540.1 - Filing of annual reports

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Each municipal water system is hereby directed to file, in
					 accordance with the requirements of section
					 3.5 
					 of this Title, to the commission the annual report of its division, bureau or
					 department of water, within two months succeeding the close of its fiscal year,
					 commencing with that for 1931.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 543 - Retention By Waterworks Corporations Of Records At Principal Office › Section 543.1 - Retention of records at principal office required

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Every corporation, company, association, joint stock
					 association, partnership and person under the jurisdiction of this commission
					 shall retain possession of all accounts, books, contracts, records, documents
					 and papers, and hold them for inspection by the Public Service Commission or
					 its agents or employees at the principal office of such corporation, company,
					 association, joint stock association, partnership and person under the
					 jurisdiction of this commission until this commission has approved of the
					 transfer of its or their property.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 543 - Retention By Waterworks Corporations Of Records At Principal Office › Section 543.2 - Notice of transfer

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No such accounts, books, contracts, records, documents and
					 papers shall be transferred from the principal office of such corporation,
					 company, association, joint stock association, partnership and person under the
					 jurisdiction of this commission until notice of such transfer has been filed,
					 in accordance with the requirements of section
					 3.5 
					 of this Title, with the commission and approval thereof
					 granted.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 544 - Continuing Property Records › Section 544.1 - Corporations affected

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Every waterworks corporation having annual water operating
					 revenues of $100,000 or over shall establish, provide and maintain continuing
					 property records of its property used wholly or partly in water
					 operations.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 544 - Continuing Property Records › Section 544.2 - Requirements of continuing property records

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Such continuing property record shall comply with the
					 following requirements:
(a) Such
				  record shall be divided into continuing property record units which shall be
				  arranged to conform with the operating property or the fixed capital accounts
				  and shall include a description of each of such units.
(b) The original cost of each of such units
				  shall be set forth provided that in those cases where the original cost cannot
				  be ascertained without unreasonable expense, such original cost shall be
				  estimated.
(c) Except as otherwise
				  provided herein, there shall be shown for property hereafter installed, and for
				  present property so far as can be ascertained, either in such record or in
				  supporting data thereto, for each of such units, the date when charged to
				  operating property or fixed capital, the location of the property, the
				  manufacturer's name and any number or other identification mark imprinted
				  thereon, the accounting company number or designation, and such other
				  description as may be necessary to plainly identify the property and the
				  associated original cost thereof.
(d) When meters or major units of power
				  plant, pumping or purification equipment have been retired and subsequently
				  reinstalled, the date when such property was first charged to operating
				  property or fixed capital shall also be shown.
(e) Such property record shall show
				  separately the units located in each city, village or town, and in the case of
				  New York City in each borough, and in each power plant, pumping plant or
				  purification plant. When a corporation desires a modification of this
				  requirement, application should be made to the commission.
(f) There shall be shown by appropriate
				  reference the source of all entries; and all drawings and computations and
				  other detail records, supporting either the quantities or the cost included in
				  the continuing property record, shall be retained.
(g) The original cost of each parcel of land
				  and each structure owned in fee shall be set forth and no further subdivision
				  need be shown.
(h) The original
				  cost of easements for right of way shall be separately set forth for each
				  transmission or distribution line.
(i) Property consisting of a large number of
				  similar units may be grouped and only the average unit cost need be set forth
				  for similar units of each size installed during a calendar year, except that in
				  the case of Account 325, Meter Installations, separate unit costs for ordinary
				  small inside meter installations need not be set forth for each year of
				  installation.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 544 - Continuing Property Records › Section 544.3 - Filing of proposed record units

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Every water-works corporation affected by this Part shall
					 file on or before February 1, 1937 a statement setting forth the continuing
					 property record units proposed to be used in its continuing property
					 record.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 544 - Continuing Property Records › Section 544.4 - Completion of continuing property records

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(a) The continuing property record herein
				  ordered to be established shall be completed as to property installed prior to
				  January 1, 1937 on or before December 31, 1937. When a corporation desires a
				  modification of this requirement, application should be made to the commission
				  on or before November 1, 1937.
(b)
				  Upon the completion of the continuing property record of property acquired
				  prior to January 1, 1937, notice shall be given this commission.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 544 - Continuing Property Records › Section 544.5 - Certain records required

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(a) Each
				  corporation affected by this Part shall keep such records of property and
				  property retirements as will reflect, so far as practicable, the service life
				  of all property retired, and will permit the determination of the age of all
				  existing property; and also such records as will reflect the salvage and cost
				  of removal of property retired from each account including property used wholly
				  or partly in water operations.
(b)
				  Each such corporation shall also maintain such records supporting its books of
				  account as are necessary to show the reserves accumulated to provide for
				  depreciation or ultimate retirement of its property used wholly or partly in
				  water operations, separately for each operating property or fixed capital
				  account.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 544 - Continuing Property Records › Section 544.6 - Original cost defined

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The term original cost when used herein means the cost of
					 such property to the person or corporation first devoting it to public
					 service.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 544 - Continuing Property Records › Section 544.7 - Amounts charged in previous years to operating expenses

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Nothing herein stated shall be taken as permitting the
					 recording in the original cost shown in the continuing property record of
					 amounts charged in previous years to operating expenses, operating taxes, or
					 other income or surplus accounts.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 545 - Accounts, Records And Reports Of General Business Corporations Providing Incidental Utility Service › Section 545.1 - Petition for exemption from requirements

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Any general business corporation supplying utility service
					 where such utility service is wholly subsidiary and incidental to its primary
					 business and is minor in amount as compared with its nonutility operations, may
					 file, in accordance with the requirements of section
					 3.5 
					 of this Title, with the commission a properly verified petition setting forth
					 the nature and extent of both its general business and its utility business,
					 the number of customers served, the amount of revenue received from such
					 business, and the reasons why it is believed it is not necessary in the proper
					 regulation of its utility operations that its accounts and records be kept
					 pursuant to the applicable system of accounts prescribed by this commission, or
					 that it file with this commission annual reports in the form provided for
					 applicable utilities.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 545 - Accounts, Records And Reports Of General Business Corporations Providing Incidental Utility Service › Section 545.2 - Action on petition

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Upon the receipt of such a petition the commission will
					 conduct a public hearing or make such other investigation as it shall deem
					 necessary, and if it be found that proper and adequate regulation does not
					 require the keeping of accounts in compliance with the system of accounts
					 applicable to corporations primarily engaged in the public utility business or
					 the filing of the type of annual reports required to be filed by such utility
					 corporations, the petitioning corporation may be relieved from keeping its
					 records and accounts in accordance with the applicable system of accounts
					 prescribed by this commission but instead be authorized to keep only such
					 accounts as shall be directed, and may be further authorized to file, in
					 accordance with the requirements of section
					 3.5 
					 of this Title, such form of annual report as may be
					 prescribed.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter V - WATERWORKS CORPORATIONS › Subchapter E - Uniform Systems Of Accounts › Article 1 - Classes A and B › Part 560 - General Provisions › Section 560.0 - Order authorizing uniform system of accounts for classes a and b

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(a) The uniform
					 system of accounts for waterworks corporations (classes A and B) is hereby
					 prescribed for every waterworks corporation (as that term is defined in the
					 Public Service Law) which has annual operating revenues from water operations
					 of $700,000 or more, subject to the jurisdiction of this commission, and every
					 such water corporation is hereby required, on and after July 1, 1987, to keep
					 its records and accounts in conformity therewith.
(b) During the 12 months following the date
					 on which said uniform system of accounts becomes effective, any such waterworks
					 corporation may for purposes of comparison, keep on its books, in addition to
					 the accounts hereby prescribed, such portion or portions of its present
					 accounts as may be deemed desirable by any such corporation.
(c) Each waterworks corporation for which
					 this uniform system of accounts is prescribed shall classify, set forth, and
					 carry all assets, liabilities, capital stock, and retained earnings (formerly
					 surplus) existing as of the effective date of this uniform system of accounts,
					 as prescribed in such system of accounts.
(d) As of the date a utility becomes subject
					 to this system of accounts, it shall prepare opening entries in accordance with
					 the following provisions:
(1) The accounts
					 prescribed herein shall be opened by transferring thereto the balances carried
					 in the accounts previously maintained. The company is authorized to make such
					 subdivisions, reclassifications, or consolidations of such balances as are
					 necessary to meet the requirements of this system of accounts.
(2) The company shall prepare and keep as
					 supporting records summary statements showing:
(i) the closing balances in each account
					 carried on the books prior to the adoption of this system of
					 accounts;
(ii) the journal entries
					 to effect the transfer of those balances to the accounts prescribed herein,
					 arranging such entries so as to show for each account or subdivision thereof
					 from what account and to what account each amount was transferred;
(iii) the resultant opening balance of each
					 account under this system of accounts.
(3) The first annual report filed with this
					 commission by a utility covering its operations subsequent to the adoption of
					 this system of accounts shall include copies of the statements referred to in
					 paragraph (2) of this subdivision.