Section 84-A. Additional supervision and regulation of housing companies  


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  • The commissioner shall require that every company file with him,  within
      six  months  of  the  effective  date  of  regulations implementing this
      section and in such format as the commissioner shall prescribe an energy
      audit  report  which   identifies   potential   energy-saving   building
      improvements,  including  alterations,  modifications and adjustments to
      the building  structure,  heating,  cooling,  lighting  and  ventilation
      systems;  their  relative  costs; potential energy and cost savings; and
      simple payback periods, which for the purpose of this section shall mean
      that  period  of  time  within  which  the  estimated   cost   of   such
      improvements,  exclusive of the cost of capital, would be recovered from
      the savings generated by reduced energy consumption resulting  from  the
      improvements.  The  energy audit shall be conducted by a public utility,
      an engineer or architect licensed by the state, or the managing agent or
      other representative of the company. A copy of the energy audit  report,
      required  herein,  shall  be  given  to  any  duly  constituted tenant's
      association or  cooperator's  advisory  council  and  a  copy  shall  be
      available  for  inspection  and  copying  by  any  individual tenant who
      requests it. The commissioner shall  also  require  that  every  company
      certify  by  March  thirty-first,  nineteen hundred eighty-four that all
      compatible conservation measures identified in the energy  audit  report
      which  have  simple  payback  period  of  one  year  or  less  have been
      implemented; provided, however, if the  commissioner  determines  within
      sixty days of the date the energy audit report is filed that one or more
      of  such identified conservation measures cannot be implemented by March
      thirty-first, nineteen hundred eighty-four,  given  the  projected  rent
      revenues  and  any  other  monies  available to the company from reserve
      funds, loans or grants from the state or federal government or any other
      source, the  implementation  of  such  conservation  measures  shall  be
      provided for according to a schedule prescribed by the commissioner.