This text of Connecticut § 19a-632a (Payment of assessment by electronic funds transfer.) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Connecticut primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
(a)For purposes of this section, “electronic funds transfer” has the same meaning as provided in section 12-685.
(b)The Office of Health Strategy may require a hospital to pay an assessment levied pursuant to section 19a-632 by way of an approved method of electronic funds transfer.
(c)A hospital making an electronic funds transfer pursuant to this section shall initiate such transfer in a timely fashion to ensure that a bank account designated by the department is credited by electronic funds transfer for the amount of the assessment required to be made by such method on or before the date such assessment is due.
(d)Where an assessment is required to be made by electronic funds transfer, any payment made by a method other than electronic funds transfer shall be treated as an assessmen
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(a) For purposes of this section, “electronic funds transfer” has the same meaning as provided in section 12-685. (b) The Office of Health Strategy may require a hospital to pay an assessment levied pursuant to section 19a-632 by way of an approved method of electronic funds transfer. (c) A hospital making an electronic funds transfer pursuant to this section shall initiate such transfer in a timely fashion to ensure that a bank account designated by the department is credited by electronic funds transfer for the amount of the assessment required to be made by such method on or before the date such assessment is due. (d) Where an assessment is required to be made by electronic funds transfer, any payment made by a method other than electronic funds transfer shall be treated as an assessment not made in a timely manner, and any payment made by electronic funds transfer, where the bank account designated by the department is not credited for the amount of the assessment on or before the date such assessment is due, shall be treated as an assessment not made in a timely manner. Any assessment treated under this subsection as an assessment not made in a timely manner shall be subject to a penalty in accordance with subsection (e) of this section. (e) Where any assessment is treated under subsection (d) of this section as an assessment not made in a timely manner because it is made by means other than electronic funds transfer, there shall be imposed a penalty equal to ten per cent of the assessment required to be made by electronic funds transfer. Where any assessment made by electronic funds transfer is treated under subsection (d) of this section as an assessment not made in a timely manner because the bank account designated by the department is not credited by electronic funds transfer for the amount of the assessment on or before the date such assessment is due, there shall be imposed a penalty equal to (1) two per cent of the assessment required to be made by electronic funds transfer, if such failure to pay by electronic funds transfer is for not more than five days; (2) five per cent of the assessment required to be made by electronic funds transfer, if such failure to pay by electronic funds transfer is for more than five days but not more than fifteen days; or (3) ten per cent of the assessment required to be made by electronic funds transfer, if such failure to pay by electronic funds transfer is for more than fifteen days. (f) The office shall deposit all payments received pursuant to this section with the State Treasurer. The moneys so deposited shall be credited to the General Fund and shall be accounted for as expenses recovered from hospitals.