N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 1020-hh: Green jobs-green New York on-bill recovery

§ 1020-hh. Green jobs-green New York on-bill recovery. 1. 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.