§ 1152 — Annual water supply statement; delivery

§ 1152. Annual water supply statement; delivery. 1. Each water works\ncorporation shall provide a water supply statement to its customers\nannually. The annual water supply statement shall either be mailed to\neach customer or published in at least one newspaper of general\ncirculation in the area served by the water works corporation. If the\nstatement is to be published in a newspaper, the water works corporation\nshall provide ample notification by announcing the publication date and\nnewspaper name either on the customers bill or in the newspaper in which\nthe statement shall appear. A limited number of additional copies, in a\nquantity to be determined by the water works corporation, shall be\nprovided to customers upon request. In addition, the statement must be\nposted on the water works corporation's website, if such exists, or be\nmade available to the municipality or municipalities in which the water\nworks corporation services to be posted on such municipalities' website,\nif such exists.\n 2. Each water works corporation shall also provide one copy of each\nannual water supply statement to the commissioner and the state\ncommissioner of environmental conservation.\n 3. The annual water supply statement shall be mailed or published, and\nposted online on or before the thirty-first day of May of each year and\nshall apply to data received by the water works corporation during the\npreceding calendar year.\n 4. The information required by subdivision four of section eleven\nhundred fifty-one of this title for each source of water may be placed\nin a supplement to the annual water supply statement instead of in the\nmain body of the statement; provided that:\n (1) the statement provides such information for a representative\nsampling of distribution point samples and a notice to the effect that\nsuch information for each source of water is included in a supplement\navailable to each customer upon request from the water works\ncorporation; and\n (2) the supplement is included in each copy of the water supply\nstatement provided to customers upon request under subdivision one of\nthis section and provided to commissioners under subdivision two of this\nsection; and\n (3) the supplement shall be\n (i) published in a notice at least one-half page in size, in one\nnewspaper of general circulation within the water district; or\n (ii) made available on a public electronic bulletin board, along with\nthe supplements from the two prior years, if such prior supplements\nexist, and notice of the availability of such information on a public\nelectronic bulletin board shall be clearly provided on each billing\nstatement and shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation\nwithin the water district; or\n (iii) made available at all New York state documents information\naccess centers, documents reference centers, documents depository\nlibraries and documents research depository libraries within the water\ndistrict and if no such libraries exist within the water district, at a\npublic library within the water district, and notice of the availability\nof the supplement at such library of libraries shall be clearly provided\non each billing statement and shall be published in a newspaper of\ngeneral circulation within the water district.\nSuch supplement need not be included in the copy of the annual water\nsupply statement mailed to each customer or published under subdivision\none of this section.\n