1152 - Annual water supply statement; delivery.

§  1152.  Annual water supply statement; delivery. 1. Each water works  corporation shall provide a water  supply  statement  to  its  customers  annually.  The  annual  water supply statement shall either be mailed to  each customer  or  published  in  at  least  one  newspaper  of  general  circulation  in  the  area served by the water works corporation. If the  statement is to be published in a newspaper, the water works corporation  shall provide ample notification by announcing the publication date  and  newspaper name either on the customers bill or in the newspaper in which  the  statement shall appear. A limited number of additional copies, in a  quantity to be determined by  the  water  works  corporation,  shall  be  provided to customers upon request.    2.  Each  water  works corporation shall also provide one copy of each  annual  water  supply  statement  to  the  commissioner  and  the  state  commissioner of environmental conservation.    3.  The  annual water supply statement shall be mailed or published on  or before the thirty-first day of May of each year and  shall  apply  to  data  received  by  the  water  works  corporation  during the preceding  calendar year.    4. The information required by  subdivision  four  of  section  eleven  hundred  fifty-one  of this title for each source of water may be placed  in a supplement to the annual water supply statement instead of  in  the  main body of the statement; provided that:    (1)  the  statement  provides  such  information  for a representative  sampling of distribution point samples and a notice to the  effect  that  such  information  for  each source of water is included in a supplement  available  to  each  customer  upon  request  from   the   water   works  corporation; and    (2)  the  supplement  is  included  in  each  copy of the water supply  statement provided to customers upon request under  subdivision  one  of  this section and provided to commissioners under subdivision two of this  section; and    (3) the supplement shall be    (i)  published  in  a  notice  at  least one-half page in size, in one  newspaper of general circulation within the water district; or    (ii) made available on a public electronic bulletin board, along  with  the  supplements  from  the  two  prior years, if such prior supplements  exist, and notice of the availability of such information  on  a  public  electronic  bulletin  board  shall  be  clearly provided on each billing  statement and shall be published in a newspaper of  general  circulation  within the water district; or    (iii)  made  available  at  all  New  York state documents information  access  centers,  documents  reference  centers,  documents   depository  libraries  and  documents research depository libraries within the water  district and if no such libraries exist within the water district, at  a  public library within the water district, and notice of the availability  of the supplement at such library of libraries shall be clearly provided  on  each  billing  statement  and  shall  be published in a newspaper of  general circulation within the water district.  Such supplement need not be included in the copy  of  the  annual  water  supply  statement mailed to each customer or published under subdivision  one of this section.