Each and every electric corporation and gas and electric corporation holding consumer deposits shall provide reasonable ways and means, in such manner as such corporation may elect, whereby a depositor who makes application for the return of his deposit and is entitled to the return thereof, but who is unable to produce the original certificate of deposit or receipt, may not be deprived of his rights.
N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 16 § 90.8