New York Laws
Article 6-A - Local Enhanced Wireless 911 Program
338 - County of Albany Enhanced 911 Emergency Telephone System.

* § 338. County of Albany enhanced 911 emergency telephone system. 1.
Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, the county of
Albany acting through its local county legislative body, is hereby
authorized and empowered to adopt, amend or repeal local laws to impose
a surcharge, in addition to the surcharge established and imposed under
section three hundred three of this chapter, in an amount not to exceed
ninety-five cents per access line per month on the customers of every
service supplier within such municipality to pay for the costs
associated with obtaining, operating and maintaining the
telecommunication equipment and telephone services needed to provide an
enhanced 911 (E911) emergency telephone system to serve such county.

2. Any such local law shall state the amount of the surcharge, the
date on which the service supplier shall begin to add such surcharge to
the billings of its customers and, to the extent practicable, the date
on which such E911 service is to begin. Such local law may authorize the
service supplier to begin billing its customers for such surcharge prior
to the date the E911 system service is to begin.

3. Any service supplier within a municipality which has imposed a
surcharge pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be given a
minimum of forty-five days written notice prior to the date it shall
begin to add such surcharge to the billings of its customers or prior to
any modification to or change in the surcharge amount.

4. The surcharge established pursuant to the provisions of this
section shall be imposed on a per access line basis on all current bills
rendered for local exchange access service within the 911 service area.

5. No such surcharge shall be imposed upon more than seventy-five
exchange access lines per customer per location.

6. Lifeline customers, residential access lines, a public safety
agency and any municipality which has enacted a local law pursuant to
the provisions of this section shall be exempt from any surcharge
imposed under this section.

* NB Repealed June 30, 2032