Property Assessed Clean Energy program: enforcement: ancillary relief.

Existing law, known commonly as the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program, authorizes a public agency, by making specified findings, to authorize public agency officials and property owners to enter into voluntary contractual assessments to finance the installation of distributed generation renewable energy sources or energy or water efficiency improvements that are permanently fixed to real property. Existing law, the California Financing Law (CFL) , provides for the licensing and regulation of PACE program administrators by the Commissioner of Financial Protection and Innovation and prohibits a person from engaging in the business of a PACE solicitor unless that person is enrolled with a program administrator, as specified. The CFL authorizes the commissioner to bring certain actions against a PACE solicitor or a PACE solicitor agent if the commissioner has cause to believe that the PACE solicitor or the PACE solicitor agent is violating the CFL, as specified. This bill would additionally authorize the commissioner to, after appropriate notice and opportunity for a hearing, as specified, order a PACE solicitor, PACE solicitor agent, or both to pay ancillary relief, including damages and restitution, to a person injured by the conduct or practice of that solicitor or solicitor agent.