Colorado Revised Statutes Title 40. Utilities § 40-8.7-105. Customer opt-in provision

(a) Establish a program whereby customers will be solicited to contribute a flat amount on the monthly remittance device on the utility billing statement;

(b) Encourage each utility to provide notification, where feasible, to customers participating in the program about the customer's ability to continue to contribute when the customer changes his or her address within the service territory;

(c) Require the utility to make additional efforts to inform utility customers about the program to ensure that adequate notice of the opt-in provision is given to all customers;

(d) In addition to notification on the monthly remittance device on the billing statement, require each utility to notify its customers about the opt-in provision prior to September 1, 2006, and require each utility to provide clear, periodic notice of the opt-in provision at least twice per year through bill inserts, in a statement on the bill or envelope, or in other utility communication pieces or through an alternative method approved by the commission. The costs of the insert and any other notification efforts will be considered in the utility's cost of service.

(e) Require each utility to consider the most cost-effective method possible when implementing the program; and

(f) Ensure that there is a mechanism for customers who make electronic payments to the utility to remove the optional charge from their monthly payments.