Iowa Admin. Code r. 199-27.1
Iowa Code section 476.2(1) provides that the Iowa utilities board shall have authority to establish all needful, just and reasonable rules, not inconsistent with law, to govern the exercise of its powers and duties, the practice and procedure before it, and to govern the form, content and filing of reports, documents and other papers provided for in Iowa Code chapter 476 or in the board's rules.
"Board" means the utilities board.
"Capacity" means the instantaneous rate at which energy can be delivered, received, or transferred, measured in kilowatts.
"Complaint," as used in these rules, means a statement or question by any person, whether a utility customer or not, alleging a wrong, grievance, injury, dissatisfaction, illegal action or procedure, dangerous condition or action, or obligation of an electric cooperative or municipal electric utility.
"Customer" means any person, firm, association, or corporation; any agency of the federal, state or local government; or any legal entity responsible by law for payment for the electric service or heat from the electric cooperative or municipal electric utility.
"Delinquent" or "delinquency" means an account for which a service bill or service payment agreement bill has not been paid in full on or before the last day for timely payment.
"Distribution line" means any single or multiphase electric power line operating at nominal voltage in either of the following ranges: 2,000 to 26,000 volts between ungrounded conductors or 1,155 to 15,000 volts between grounded and ungrounded conductors, regardless of the functional service provided by the line.
"Electric plant" includes all real estate, fixtures and property owned, controlled, operated or managed in connection with or to facilitate production, generation, transmission, or distribution, in providing electric service or heat by an electric utility.
"Electric service" means furnishing electricity to the public for compensation for use as heat, light, power, or energy.
"Energy" means electric energy measured in kilowatt hours.
"Engineering standards" means standards adopted by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), or the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Rural Utilities Service (RUS), or similar type of engineering organizations or engineering standards adopted by the board.
"Major event" means when an event results in extensive physical damage to transmission or distribution facilities within an electric cooperative or municipal electric utility's operating area due to unusually severe and abnormal weather or event and:
"Meter" means, unless otherwise qualified, a device that measures and registers the integral of an electrical quantity with respect to time.
"Power" means electric power measured in kilowatts.
"Safety standard" means a set of policies, procedures, or specifications formally adopted by a governmental agency, an accrediting agency, or standards developing organization, the purpose of which is to ensure the safe generation, transmission, or distribution of electric energy to customers or electric utilities, including electric cooperatives and municipal electric utilities. "Safety standard" includes, but is not limited to, the safety standards in rule 199-27.8 (476), the electrical safety code in 199-Chapter 25, the National Electrical Safety Code, the American National Standards Institute, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
"Secondary line" means any single or multiphase electric power line operating at nominal voltage less than either 2,000 volts between ungrounded conductors or 1,155 volts between grounded and ungrounded conductors, regardless of the functional service provided by the line.
"Service limitation" means the establishment of a limit on the amount of power that may be consumed by a residential customer through the installation of a service limiter device on the customer's meter.
"Tariff" means, for the purposes of this chapter, the service classifications, rules, procedures, and policies filed with and approved by the board.
"Timely payment" means a payment on a customer's account made on or before the date shown on a current bill for service, or on a form which records an agreement between the customer and a utility for a series of partial payments to settle a delinquent account, as the date which determines application of a late payment charge to the current bill or future collection efforts.
"Transmission line" means any single or multiphase electric power line operating at nominal voltages at or in excess of either 69,000 volts between ungrounded conductors or 40,000 volts between grounded and ungrounded conductors, regardless of the functional service provided by the line.
ANSI-American National Standards Institute, www.ansi.org.
IEEE-Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, www.ieee.org.
NESC-National Electrical Safety Code.
NFPA-National Fire Protection Association, www.nfpa.org.
RUS-United States Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service, www.rd.usda.gov/about-rd/agencies/rural-utilities-service.
Iowa Admin. Code r. 199-27.1