§ 18-a. Costs and expenses of the commission and department and the\nassessment of such costs and expenses. 1. All costs and expenses of the\ndepartment and commission shall be paid pursuant to appropriation on the\ncertification of the chairman of the department and upon the audit and\nwarrant of the comptroller. The state treasury shall be reimbursed\ntherefore by payments to be made thereto from all moneys collected\npursuant to this chapter. The total of such costs and expenses shall be\nborne by the public utility companies (including for the purposes of\nthis section municipalities other than municipalities as defined in\nsection eighty-nine-l of this chapter), corporations (including the\npower authority of the state of New York), and persons subject to the\ncommission's regulation, to be assessed in the manner provided in\nsubdivisions two, three and four of this section and section two hundred\nseventeen of this chapter.\n 1-a. All costs and expenses of the department related to the\ndepartment's responsibilities under section three-b of this chapter\nshall be paid pursuant to appropriation on the certification of the\nchairman of the department and upon the audit and warrant of the\ncomptroller. For the state fiscal year beginning on April first, two\nthousand fourteen and each state fiscal year thereafter, payments are to\nbe made from all moneys collected from the Long Island power authority\npursuant to this section. The total of such costs and expenses shall be\nassessed on such authority in the manner provided in subdivisions two,\nthree and four of this section.\n 2. (a) The chairman of the department shall estimate prior to the\nstart of each state fiscal year the total costs and expenses, including\nthe compensation and expenses of the commission and the department,\ntheir officers, agents and employees, and including the cost of\nretirement contributions, social security, health and dental insurance,\nsurvivor's benefits, workers' compensation, unemployment insurance and\nother fringe benefits required to be paid by the state for the personnel\nof the commission and the department, and including all other items of\nmaintenance and operation expenses, and all other direct and indirect\ncosts. Based on such estimates, the chairman shall determine the amount\nto be paid by each assessed public utility company and the Long Island\npower authority and a bill shall be rendered to each such public utility\ncompany and authority.\n (b) The bill for each public utility company and the Long Island power\nauthority shall be rendered on or before February first preceding each\nfiscal year, and shall be for the amount equal to the product of the\naforesaid estimated costs and expenses of conducting the department's\nand commission's total operations during the fiscal year for which\nbilling is being made multiplied by the proportion which compares:\n (1) the gross operating revenues, over and above five hundred thousand\ndollars, for that utility company or the authority derived from\nintrastate utility operations in the last preceding calendar year, or\nother twelve month period as determined by the chairman, to:\n (2) the total of the gross operating revenues, derived from intrastate\nutility operations for all utility companies and the authority in the\nstate which revenues are included under subparagraph one of this\nparagraph.\n For the purposes of calculating the commodity cost component of its\ngross operating revenue, where the utility delivers to end-use customers\nelectricity and/or natural gas commodities that are sold to such\ncustomers by a third party, such utility shall include in its revenues\nan estimate of the sales revenue for the electric and/or natural gas\ncommodities that it delivers, including all such commodities sold to\nend-use customers by third parties, in such manner as to assure that all\nend-use delivery customers, regardless of the entity from which they\npurchase their electric and
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