(a) Each supplier of farm equipment sold to a New York consumer shall notify the Attorney General in writing, within 10 days after the effective date of these regulations, of the name, address and telephone number of the person designated to receive notices under the GBL article 33-B program. Such information shall be presumed correct unless updated by the supplier.

(b) Within five days of the filing date, the administrator shall send the supplier’s designee a notice that a request for arbitration has been filed by the consumer and that the supplier must remit the prescribed arbitration fee to the administrator within 10 days from the date of mailing by the administrator. The date the prescribed arbitration fee is received by the administrator is considered the commencement date.

(c) Within five days of the commencement date, the administrator shall send the supplier’s designee a copy of the consumer’s completed request for arbitration form along with a notice that it may respond in writing. Such response shall be sent in triplicate, within 15 days of the commencement date, to the administrator, who shall promptly forward one copy to the consumer.

(d) If, after 10 days from the date of mailing of the first notice to the supplier requesting payment of the prescribed arbitration fee, the administrator fails to receive such prescribed fee, the administrator shall promptly advise the supplier in writing that unless such fee is received within 20 days from the date of the first notice, the Attorney General’s office will be notified of the supplier’s non-compliance. In the event that the administrator fails to receive the prescribed arbitration fee from the supplier within 20 days of the first notice, it shall promptly notify the Attorney General’s office in writing of such non-compliance.