4 Colo. Code Regs. § 723-5-5001

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 7, April 10, 2024

Section 4 CCR 723-5-5001 - Definitions

The following definitions apply throughout this Part 5, except where a specific rule or statute provides otherwise:

(a) "Affiliate" of a public utility means a subsidiary of a public utility, a parent corporation of a public utility, a joint venture organized as a separate corporation or partnership to the extent of the individual public utility's involvement with the joint venture, a subsidiary of a parent corporation of a public utility or where the public utility or the parent corporation has a controlling interest over an entity.

(b) "Basis point" means one-hundredth of a percentage point (100 basis points = 1 percent).

(c) "Customer" means any person who is currently receiving utility service. Any person who moves within a utility's service territory and obtains utility service at a new location within 30 days shall be considered a "customer." Unless stated in a particular rule, "customer" applies to any class of customer as defined by the Commission or by utility tariff.

(d) "Distribution Line Extension" means any construction of distribution facilities (excluding meters and meter installation facilities) necessary to supply service to one or more additional customers.

(e) "Local office" means any Colorado office operated by a utility at which persons may make requests to establish or discontinue utility service. If the utility does not operate any office in Colorado, "local office" means any office operated by a utility at which persons may make requests to establish or discontinue utility service in Colorado.

(f) "Master water meter operator" means a person who:

(I) purchases utility service from a utility for the purpose of delivering that service to end users whose aggregate usage is to be measured by a composite measurement device;

(II) does not charge end users for any costs in addition to the actual cost billed to such person for utility service, including without limitation, costs of construction, maintenance, financing, administration, metering, or billing for the distribution system owned or leased by such person;

(III) if billing end users separately, does not bill the end users, in the aggregate, more than the amount billed to such person for utility service; and

(IV) if billing end users separately, passes on to the end users any refunds, rebates, rate reductions, or similar adjustments such person receives for utility service.

(V) In addition, a person who manages or acts as a landlord of mobile home parks under the jurisdiction of the Department of Local Affairs and the Mobile Home Park Act Dispute Resolution and Enforcement Program may be a master water meter operator.

(g) "Past due" means the point at which a utility can affect a customer's account for regulated service due to non-payment of charges for regulated service.

(h) "Principal place of business" means the place, in or out of the state of Colorado, where the executive or managing principals that directly oversee the utility's operations in Colorado are located.

(i) "Service Line Extension" means any construction of distribution facilities (including meters and meter installation facilities) necessary to supply service to a single customer household or a single multi-unit dwelling.

(j) "Utility" means any public utility as defined in § 40-1-103(1)(a), C.R.S., providing water or combined water and sewer to customers in the state of Colorado.

(k) "Utility service" or "service" means a service offering of a public utility, which service offering is regulated by the Commission.

4 CCR 723-5-5001

42 CR 07, April 10, 2019, effective 4/30/2019

45 CR 17, September 10, 2022, effective 9/10/2022

45 CR 17, September 10, 2022, effective 9/30/2022