Section 489-HHHHHH. Administration of the benefit program  


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  • The department
      shall have the following additional functions, powers and duties:
        1. To require that any documents submitted in support of or as part of
      an application be certified;
        2. To audit documents  submitted  by  an  applicant,  to  require  the
      production  of  books, records and documents with respect to information
      relating to any application made pursuant to, or whether  the  applicant
      has complied with, the requirements of this title;
        3.  To revoke or suspend benefits due to non-compliance with a request
      made under this section;
        4. To enter and inspect property to determine a property's use and  to
      determine whether (a) any such property is being used for any restricted
      use, or
        (b)  any  property for which benefits have been granted for industrial
      construction work is being used  as  commercial  property,  or  (c)  any
      industrial  or  commercial  property  is  being  used  as residential or
      mixed-use property, or (d) all or part of the nonresidential portion  of
      mixed-use property is being used as residential property;
        5.  To  make  and promulgate a rule that increases up to fifty percent
      the amount of the  minimum  required  expenditure  required  under  this
      title,  if,  after  consultation  with  the  deputy  mayor  for economic
      development and planning, the commissioner  determines  that  a  greater
      minimum  required  expenditure  is  required  to  encourage  significant
      industrial and commercial development; and
        6. To make and promulgate any other rules to carry out the purposes of
      this title.  Such  rules  shall  provide  that  for  construction  work,
      recipients  of benefits and their contractors shall be equal opportunity
      employers and may also provide that persons employed in the construction
      work shall implement a training program for  economically  disadvantaged
      persons  enrolled  or  eligible  to  be  enrolled  in  training programs
      approved by the department of labor.