(1) The service contract seller petitions the Director, through the Bureau, to release funds in the account in order to pay for repair services required to meet obligations to service contractholders. Such a petition shall contain evidence that the service contract seller is unable to meet his or her obligations except through the use of funds in the escrow account.

Such a petition shall include financial statements and an accompanying written narrative by an officer of the service contractor, signed under penalty of perjury, detailing the financial condition of the service contractor and why the service contractor is unable to meet its service contract obligations except by use of escrow funds. The petition shall present a plan for corrective action that details how the service contractor will correct the deficiency in its funded escrow account or will otherwise discharge its obligations to the service contract holders.

(2) A service contractholder or group of service contract holders petitions the Director, through the Bureau, to release funds in the account in order to pay for repair services required to meet obligations to service contractholders. Such petition shall set forth the efforts the service contractholders took to obtain repair service from the service contract seller (or obligor).

(1) The issuance of an interim order restricting the service contractor's ability to enter into new service contracts during the period when the Director has authorized the trustee to release funds from the escrow account to pay for repair services.

(2) Requiring the service contractor to appoint a third party to process applications from service contract holders for escrow account funds to pay for covered repairs.