65- 407 C.M.R. ch. 322, § 7
A competitive electricity provider shall provide the transmission and distribution utility with a notification to enroll a customer for generation service. For residential and small non-residential customers, notification shall not occur until the end of the rescission period specified in Section 4(C) of Chapter 305.
If the transmission and distribution utility receives from the competitive electricity provider a notification to enroll a customer no less than 2 business days before the customer's next normally scheduled meter read date, the transmission and distribution utility shall enroll the customer with the provider on the customer's next normally scheduled meter read date. Otherwise, enrollment will occur on the following normally scheduled meter read date, except for enrollments occurring March 1, 2000.
At the time of a customer's normally-scheduled read date, if the transmission and distribution utility has received a notification to enroll the customer from more than one competitive electricity provider, the first notification received by the transmission and distribution utility shall be carried out even if the enrollment notification by the competitive provider is received subsequent to the customer's request for standard offer service or the customer's current competitive electricity provider's notification to the utility of its intent to drop the customer.
A transmission and distribution utility may not enroll a customer to receive generation service from a competitive electricity provider unless that provider has provided notification to enroll the customer pursuant to this section.
Pursuant to Chapter 301 of the Commission's rules, the transmission and distribution utility shall arrange for a customer to receive standard offer service if the customer has provided notice to the transmission and distribution utility pursuant to the provisions in Chapter 301. Pursuant to Chapter 301, the transmission and distribution utility shall arrange for the customer to receive standard offer service if the customer has not chosen a competitive electricity provider. The transmission and distribution utility shall transfer the customer to standard offer service on the customer's next normally scheduled meter read date pursuant to procedures contained in Chapter 301. If the customer requests to transfer to standard offer service on a date other than the normally scheduled meter read date, the transmission and distribution utility shall transfer the customer pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 301.
Chapter 81 governs a customer's application to receive transmission and distribution service. A competitive electricity provider may not arrange for its customer to receive transmission and distribution service.
If the transmission and distribution utility has received a notification to enroll for generation service from a competitive electricity provider at the time a customer's transmission and distribution service begins, the transmission and distribution utility shall enroll the customer with the competitive electricity provider. Otherwise, the transmission and distribution utility shall arrange for the customer to receive standard offer service.
If a customer moves to a new location within its existing transmission and distribution utility service territory and does not interrupt transmission and distribution utility service, and the transmission and distribution utility has not received a notification to enroll from a new competitive electricity provider, the transmission and distribution utility shall retain the customer's enrollment with its competitive electricity provider at the customer's new location. This provision only applies if the meter at the new location is compatible with the competitive electricity provider's rates. If the meter is not compatible with the competitive electricity provider's rates, the transmission and distribution utility shall arrange for the customer to receive standard offer service.
65- 407 C.M.R. ch. 322, § 7