52:18-40 Regulations, procedures to manage collection of debt; report of inventory of total debt.

3. a. The Department of the Treasury shall promulgate regulations and procedures to effectively manage the collection of debt. The regulations and procedures shall include: the designation of the Division of Revenue in the Department of the Treasury as State government's centralized debt management agency; and a requirement that a State agency in the executive branch that is unable, within 90 days of the recording of the delinquency, to collect such a debt owed to the agency, shall transfer the delinquent account no later than at the end of the 91st day following the recording of the debt to the Division of Revenue, which shall manage the delinquent account on behalf of the transferring agency and credit to the appropriate account of the transferring agency any debt collected.

b. In order to assist the Division of Revenue in its centralized debt management responsibilities, the chief administrative officer of each State department or agency, or their designee, within 45 days following the conclusion of each fiscal year, shall provide to the Director of the Division of Revenue in a format as the director shall determine, a certified report of the inventory for the fiscal year of the total debt owed to the department or agency so recorded on the department's or agency's records, debt owed to and collected by the department or agency, debt owed but not collected within 90 days of recording of the delinquency, the amount of that delinquent debt not transferred to the division, and the amount of the debt determined to be owed to the department or agency during the last 90 days of the fiscal year.

L.2008, c.24, s.3.