(a)  Voluntary or mandatory.- The Commission may require that a deferral of expenses under a rate stabilization plan be either voluntary or mandatory if the Commission finds that the required type of deferral is in the public interest. 

(b)  Security for deferral.- The rate stabilization plan may provide that a deferral shall be secured through the issuance of rate stabilization bonds authorized by a qualified rate order under this part. 

[2006 Sp. Sess., ch. 5, § 1.]