§ 89-b. Safe and adequate service; just and reasonable charges; unjust\ndiscrimination; unreasonable preference; protection of privacy. 1. Every\nwater-works corporation shall furnish and provide such service,\ninstrumentalities and facilities as shall be safe and adequate and in\nall respects just and reasonable. All charges made or demanded by any\nsuch water-works corporation for water, or for equipment furnished or\nfor any service rendered or to be rendered shall be just and reasonable\nand not more than allowed by law or by order of the commission. Every\nunjust or unreasonable charge made or demanded for water or for\nequipment furnished or for any such service, or in connection therewith,\nor in excess of that allowed by law or by the order of the commission is\nprohibited.\n 2. No water-works corporation shall directly or indirectly, by any\nspecial rate, rebate, drawback or other device or method, charge,\ndemand, collect or receive from any person or corporation a greater or\nless compensation for water, or for equipment or for any service\nrendered or to be rendered or in connection therewith, except as\nauthorized in this article, than it charges, demands, collects or\nreceives from any other person or corporation for doing a like and\ncontemporaneous service with respect thereto under the same or\nsubstantially similar circumstances or conditions.\n 3. No water-works corporation shall make or grant any undue or\nunreasonable preference or advantage to any person, corporation or\nlocality, or to any particular description of service in any respect\nwhatsoever, or subject any particular person, corporation or locality or\nany particular description of service to any undue or unreasonable\nprejudice or disadvantage in any respect whatsoever.\n 3-a. No water-works corporation shall discontinue or disconnect the\nsupply of water for non-payment of water rents, rates or charges, unless\nsuch water-works corporation shall have first given fifteen days'\nwritten notice of its intention so to do to the owner of the premises\nthereby affected, or in lieu thereof, to the person, firm or corporation\nto whom or which the last preceding bill has been rendered and from whom\nor which the water-works corporation has received payment therefor, and\nto the superintendent or other person in charge of the building or\npremises thereby affected, if it can be readily ascertained that there\nis such superintendent or other person in charge. Such notice in every\ncase shall be served either personally on the person, firm or\ncorporation to which it is directed, or by mailing the same in a\npostpaid wrapper to the address of such person, firm or corporation.\n 3-b. (a) No water-works corporation can effect the discontinuance of\nresidential service for nonpayment of bills rendered for water service\non Friday after twelve noon, Saturday, Sunday, public holiday, or day on\nwhich the main business office of the corporation is not open for\nbusiness.\n (b) Discontinuance for nonpayment of bills rendered for water service\nof residential services can only take place between Monday and Thursday\nbetween the hours of eight a.m. and six p.m., and Fridays before twelve\nnoon.\n (c) The term public holiday refers to those holidays enumerated in the\ngeneral construction law.\n 3-c. It shall be unlawful for any water-works corporation to\ndiscontinue the supply of water to any person or entity receiving public\nassistance, for nonpayment of bills rendered for service, if the payment\nfor such service is to be paid directly by the office of temporary and\ndisability assistance or the social services official in such locality.\n 4. Nothing in this chapter shall be taken to prohibit a water-works\ncorporation from establishing a sliding scale for a fixed period for the\nautomatic adjustment of charges for water, or any service rendered or to\nbe rendered and the dividends to be paid to stockholders of such\ncorporation, provided the sliding
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