Section 489-DDDDDD. Applying for benefits

1. Application. (a) Application
  for benefits pursuant to this title may be  made  immediately  following
  the  effective  date  of  a local law enacted pursuant to this title and
  continuing until March first, two thousand eleven.
    (b) Application content. The preliminary and final applications  shall
  be  in  any  format designated by the commissioner, including electronic
  format. The applications shall require, and  applicants  shall  provide,
  information  and  documentation  sufficient to determine eligibility for
  abatement benefits. The required information and documentation for  both
  applications  shall  be  prescribed  by  the  department  by  rule. Such
  information and documentation may include, but need not be  limited  to,
  certified statements related to the project, project costs, filings with
  other  governmental  entities,  and work performed or to be performed on
  such project. At the department's sole discretion, an applicant  may  be
  required  to  furnish  certified  statements  made  by  the  applicant's
  architect or engineer or both.
    (c) Compliance. The application shall also state  that  the  applicant
  agrees  to  comply  with and be subject to the rules issued from time to
  time by the department to secure compliance with  all  applicable  city,
  state  and  federal  laws  or  which  implement  mayoral  directives and
  executive orders designed to ensure  equal  employment  opportunity.  If
  required  by  local  law  or  rule  as described in section four hundred
  eighty-nine-kkkkkk of this title, such application shall also state that
  the applicant agrees to comply with the program established  thereby  to
  ensure  meaningful  participation  of  minority and women-owned business
  enterprises in  construction  work  for  which  the  applicant  receives
  benefits.
    (d)  Affidavit  of  no  violations. No benefits pursuant to this title
  shall be granted for any construction work unless  the  applicant  shall
  file with the application, the affidavit required under paragraph (c) of
  subdivision  five  of  section  four  hundred eighty-nine-cccccc of this
  title.
    (e) Electronic filing of application. The commissioner may,  by  rule,
  require  any  application  for benefits under this title to be submitted
  electronically  in  such  form  and  manner  as  the  commissioner   may
  determine. For good cause, the commissioner may waive any rule requiring
  electronic  filing  and may permit an application to be filed in another
  manner.
    2.  Fees.  The  department  may  provide  by   rule   for   reasonable
  administrative   charges   or  fees  necessary  to  defray  expenses  in
  administering this benefit program.