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Bill No.: Summary Actions Committee&nbspVotes Floor&nbspVotes Memo Text LFIN Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript S10311 Summary: BILL NO S10311 &nbsp SAME AS SAME AS A09293

&nbsp SPONSOR TEDISCO &nbsp COSPNSR &nbsp MLTSPNSR &nbsp Add §1125-a, Pub Auth L &nbsp Authorizes the town of Wilton water and sewer authority to collect unpaid water bills through tax collections.

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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________

10311

IN SENATE

May 12, 2026 ___________

Introduced by Sen. TEDISCO -- 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 method of collection of charges by the town of Wilton water and sewer authority

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows:

1 Section 1. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new 2 section 1125-a to read as follows: 3 § 1125-a. Charges by authority; method of collection. All rates, fees 4 and other charges for the use or availability of the facilities or 5 services or commodities provided or made available by the authority and 6 billed directly by the authority to the user or service recipient pursu- 7 ant to a classification of person adopted by the authority as herein 8 provided shall be a lien upon the real property upon which, or in 9 connection with which, services are provided or are made available, as 10 and from the first date fixed for a payment of such rates, fees and 11 other charges. Any such lien shall take precedence over all other liens, 12 or encumbrances, except taxes or assessments. The chief financial offi- 13 cer of the authority shall prepare and transmit to the receiver of taxes 14 and assessments, on or before the first day of November in each year, a 15 list of those properties using such facilities or for which such facili- 16 ties, services or commodities were provided or made available and from 17 which the payment of rates, fees and other charges are in arrears for a 18 period of ninety days or more after the last day fixed for payment of 19 such rates, fees and other charges without penalty. The list shall 20 contain a brief description of such properties, the names of the persons 21 or corporations liable to pay for the same, and the amount chargeable to 22 each, including penalties and interest, as applicable, computed to 23 December thirty-first of that year. The receiver of taxes and assess- 24 ments shall levy such sums against the properties liable and shall state 25 the amount thereof in a separate column in the annual tax rolls of the 26 town under the heading "water charge". Such amounts, excluding penalties 27 and interest imposed by the town when collected by the town collector or

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD14076-01-5

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1 receiver of taxes, shall be paid over to the chief financial officer of 2 the authority. Town imposed penalties and interest shall be retained by 3 the town collector or receiver of taxes which shall become a part of the 4 general funds of the town. All of the provisions of the tax law of the 5 state governing enforcement and collection of unpaid taxes or assess- 6 ments for special improvements not inconsistent herewith shall apply to 7 the collection of such unpaid rates, rentals, fees and other charges. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 9 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.

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