(a) All payments out of the several funds in the State Treasury shall be made by a commercially accepted method of payment from the Treasury Department. The State Treasurer shall determine the form and method of issuing such payments. The State Treasurer shall make available to the agencies for which the Treasury Department makes payments as many of such payment methods as the Treasury Department determines to be commercially accepted and generally used. The Treasury Department shall administer and support the provisioning of these payment methods.

(a.1) Upon written request by a taxpayer, the State Treasurer shall remit any tax refund which exceeds twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) by electronic funds transfers (EFT) which include automated clearinghouse debit, automated clearinghouse credit, wire transfer and any other means that may be available to the Commonwealth. The State Treasurer, Secretary of Revenue and Secretary of the Budget shall jointly select which method of electronic funds transfer shall be utilized from among these options and jointly adopt procedures for making the tax refunds.

(b) Deleted by 1986, May 2, P.L. 145, No. 45, § 5, imd. effective.

(c) All checks except those for payment of unemployment compensation and public assistance shall have imprinted upon their face a statement that they will not be honored unless presented within six months from their date. All checks for payment of unemployment compensation and public assistance shall have imprinted upon their face a statement that they will not be honored unless presented within thirty days from their date. Upon the surrender of any check which would have become void because of the failure of the holder to present it for payment within the period for presentation imprinted upon its face, the Treasury Department shall issue a new check to the payee or payees named in such check in the amount thereof or validate the original check for an additional period equal to that specified on the original check.

The Treasury Department may, if satisfied that a check has been lost or destroyed, and after stopping payment thereof, issue a duplicate.