(b) The department of state shall have the authority to promulgate any
rules or regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this
subdivision.
5. The department of state shall create and make available to the
public on the department's website a notice informing homeowners who are
converting their existing oil home heating system to an alternative
method of home heating of the provisions of subdivision thirteen of
section three hundred seventy-eight of the executive law, in addition to
any other state laws, rules, or regulations related to the closure,
abandonment, and/or removal of a heating oil storage tank, including
fill and vent pipes and other related materials and equipment. Such
notice shall include information to inform the homeowner that the
homeowner shall provide written notice to his or her home heating oil
supplier to inform such supplier of such conversion prior to the
commencement of the new home heating service, and shall also advise the
homeowner that there may be other local laws related to such conversion.