Current through 2024 NY Law Chapter 553
Section 1020-HH - Green jobs-green New York on-bill recovery1. Within three hundred days of the effective date of this section, the authority shall establish a program to provide for the billing and collection of on-bill recovery charges for payment of obligations of its customers to the green jobs-green New York revolving loan fund established pursuant to title nine-A of article eight of the public authorities law. Such program shall be consistent with the standards set forth in subdivision three of section forty-two and section sixty-six-m of the public service law. To the maximum extent practicable, funding available from the New York state energy research and development authority shall be utilized to defray any costs associated with electronic data interchange improvements or other costs of initiating and implementing this program. Billing and collection services under such tariffs shall commence as soon as practicable after establishment of the program.2. The authority may suspend its offering of the on-bill recovery charge provided that the authority makes a finding that there is a significant increase in arrears or utility service disconnections that the authority determines is directly related to such charge, or a finding of other good cause.N.Y. Pub. Auth. Law § 1020-HH