Q. Does a landlord have the legal right to impose a $20.74 monthly surcharge for an air-conditioner in my apartment?

He voted in favor of the 30-cent monthly surcharge on cell phone bills, which generated $1.4 million to upgrade local emergency response systems.

They considered a monthly surcharge of $250 a month to cover the shortfall on 28 repossessed units, a heavy financial burden.

The bill would also eliminate a so-called "poor tax" that allows a $15 monthly surcharge on apartments renting for $500 or less.

The County Legislature also approved a 35-cent monthly surcharge on phone bills to pay for an enhanced 911 system.

He has sponsored a bill that calls on the state to give the city the entire $1.20 monthly surcharge it charges cellphone users.

State 911 systems are paid for through monthly surcharges on wireless phones and landlines.

Thus the resident shareholders had each had to pay a monthly surcharge of $250 since October so bills could continue to be paid.

About $178 million would be covered by the monthly surcharge on telephone access lines.

Paid for by a 35-cent monthly surcharge on telephone bills, the new system, called enhanced 911, was supposed to start working by 1995.