Bill Text: NJ A909 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Authorizes companies under BPU jurisdiction to bill customers electronically upon customers' request.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-1)
Status: (Passed) 2010-11-30 - Approved P.L.2010, c.90. [A909 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-A909-Chaptered.html
§1 - C.48:3-96.1
§2 - Note to §1
An Act concerning certain billing practices of companies under the jurisdiction of the Board of Public Utilities and supplementing Title 48 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Any company under the jurisdiction of the Board of Public Utilities that periodically bills its customers may, upon the request of a customer:
a. offer each customer the ability to receive or access, in electronic format, any periodic bill for service sent by the company to its customers and any additional information sent by the company to its customers as required by law, provided that any notice of disconnection, discontinuance or termination of service shall be sent to a customer in written form to a customer's legal mailing address in addition to being sent or being made available in electronic format; and
b. provide the customer of such company the option of paying any such periodic bill via electronic means.
2. This act shall take effect on the 180th day after the date of enactment, but the Board of Public Utilities may take such anticipatory administrative action in advance thereof as shall be necessary for the implementation of this act.
Authorizes companies under BPU jurisdiction to bill customers electronically upon customers' request.
