- A. If a customer is on budget billing at the time of transfer to supplier-consolidated billing service from utility-consolidated billing or sales service, the utility shall provide a customer an alternative payment plan upon request if the budget deficit is greater than $100.
- B. The utility shall inform the customer that the customer may be unable to switch to another supplier providing supplier-consolidated billing until a payment plan as described in §A of this regulation is paid in full.
- C. A customer may choose to pay the budget deficit in full at any time.
Authority: Public Utilities Article, §§2-113, 2-121, 5-101, 7-507, 7-511, and 7-601—7-606, Annotated Code of Maryland
Effective date:
Regulations.01—.04 adopted as an emergency provision effective July 16, 2009 (36:17 Md. R. 1311); adopted permanently effective October 5, 2009 (36:20 Md. R. 1532)
Regulation .02E adopted effective March 7, 2022 (49:5 Md. R. 367)
Regulation .03C amended effective March 14, 2016 (43:5 Md. R. 387)
Regulations .05—.11 adopted effective March 7, 2022 (49:5 Md. R. 367)