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(a) In accordance with the provisions of article six of the county law, as amended, there is hereby established a surcharge of thirty cents per month on wireless communications service in the city of New York. The surcharge shall be imposed on each wireless communications device and shall be reflected and made payable on bills rendered for wireless communications service that is provided to a customer whose place of primary use is within the city of New York.
(b) The surcharge imposed by subdivision (a) of this section shall be used to pay for the costs associated with the design, construction, operation, maintenance, and administration of public safety communications networks serving the city of New York.
(c) All wireless communications service suppliers that provide service to customers whose place of primary use is within the city of New York shall begin to add the monthly surcharge as provided in subdivision (a) of this section to all service bills no later than the forty-fifth day after the effective date of the local law that added this chapter.
(d) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, no surcharge shall be imposed pursuant to this chapter on or after December 1, 2017.
(Am. L.L. 2017/139, 8/25/2017, eff. 12/1/2017)
Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at .
(a) Each wireless communications service supplier serving the city of New York shall act as collection agent for the city of New York and shall remit the funds collected pursuant to the surcharge imposed under the provisions of this chapter to the commissioner of finance each month. Such funds shall be remitted no later than thirty days after the last business day of the month.
(b) Each wireless communications service supplier shall be entitled to retain, as an administrative fee, an amount equal to two per cent of its collections of the surcharge.
(c) The surcharge required to be collected by the wireless communications service supplier shall be added to and stated separately in its billings to customers.
(d) Each wireless communications service supplier shall annually provide to the city of New York an accounting of the surcharge amounts billed and collected.
Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at .
(a) Each wireless communications service customer who is subject to the provisions of this chapter shall be liable to the city of New York for the surcharge until it has been paid to the city except that payment to a wireless communications service supplier is sufficient to relieve the customer from further liability for such surcharge.
(b) No wireless communications service supplier shall have a legal obligation to enforce the collection of any surcharge imposed under the provisions of this chapter, provided, however, that whenever the wireless communications service supplier remits the funds collected to the city of New York, it shall also provide the city with the name and address of any customer refusing or failing to pay the surcharge and shall state the amount of such surcharge remaining unpaid.
Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at .
(a) All surcharge monies remitted to the city of New York by a wireless communications service supplier shall be expended only upon authorization of the council and only for payment of system costs or other costs associated with the design, construction, operation, maintenance, and administration of public safety communications networks serving the city of New York. The finance commissioner and the director of the office of management and budget shall separately account for and keep adequate books and records of the amount and source of all such monies and of the amount and object or purpose of all expenditures thereof.
(b) If, at the end of any fiscal year, the total amount of all such monies exceeds the amount necessary for payment of the above mentioned costs in such fiscal year, such excess shall be reserved and carried over for the payment of those costs in the following fiscal year.
Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at .