Florida Administrative Code › 25 - PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION › 25 - Departmental › Chapter 25-7 - GAS SERVICE BY GAS PUBLIC UTILITIES › Part I - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 25-7.003 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
For the purpose of these rules, the following definitions
					 apply:
(1) "Commission." Unless a
				  different intent clearly appears from the context, the word "commission" when
				  used in these rules shall be taken to mean the Florida Public Service
				  Commission.
(2) "Utility." Except
				  where a different meaning clearly appears from the context, the word or words
				  "utility" or "gas utility" as used in these rules shall have the same meaning
				  as set out for "public utility" in Section 366(2), F.S., and shall include all
				  such utilities subject to Commission jurisdiction.
(3) "Customer." Any person, firm,
				  partnership, company, corporation, municipality, cooperative, organization,
				  governmental agency, or similar organization supplied with gas service by any
				  such gas utility.
(4) "Gas." Gas is
				  any gas or mixture of gases suitable for domestic or industrial fuel and
				  transmitted or distributed to the user through a piping system. However, this
				  does not include liquefied petroleum gases in the vapor or liquid state when
				  furnished by a utility not subject to Commission jurisdiction under the
				  provisions of Section
				   366.02, F.S. The common types
				  are natural gas, manufactured gas, and liquefied petroleum gas distributed as a
				  vapor with the admixture of air.
(5) "Manufactured Gas." The term
				  "manufactured gas" as used in these rules shall be construed to mean any gas
				  artificially produced by any generating or processing equipment, exclusive of
				  "hydrocarbon gas."
(6) "Natural
				  Gas." The term "natural gas" as used in these rules shall be construed to mean
				  any gases taken into the transmission or distribution systems in their natural
				  state as they come from the well or from oil separating or gasoline extraction
				  apparatus.
(7) "Mixed Gas." The
				  term "mixed gas" as used in these rules shall be construed to mean any mixture
				  of two or more gases of materially different physical character or chemical
				  composition mixed inside or outside of any generating or processing equipment
				  or any well, separating, or extracting plant, except undiluted liquefied
				  petroleum gases when furnished by a utility not subject to Commission
				  jurisdiction under the provisions of Section
				   366.02, F.S.
(8) "Main." Gas main or distribution main is
				  a pipe installed in a community to convey gas to individual services or other
				  mains.
(9) "Service Line." Service
				  line is the distribution line that transports gas from a common source of
				  supply to (1) a customer meter or the connection to a customer's piping,
				  whichever is farther downstream, or (2) the connection to a customer's piping
				  if there is no customer meter.
(10)
				  "Service Regulator." Service regulator is a regulator installed on a gas
				  service to control the pressure of the gas delivered to the customer.
(11) "Standard Service Pressure." Standard
				  service pressure is the gas pressure which a utility undertakes to maintain on
				  its domestic customer meters, sometimes called the normal utilization
				  pressure.
(12) "Customer Meter."
				  Customer meter is a meter which measures gas delivered to a customer for
				  consumption on his premises.
(13)
				  "Cubic Foot." The term "cubic foot" of gas as used in these rules shall have
				  the following meanings:
(a) In cases where gas
				  is supplied and metered to customers at the standard delivery pressure, a cubic
				  foot of gas shall be defined to be the volume of gas which, at the temperature
				  and pressure existing in the meter, occupies one cubic foot.
(b) When gas is supplied to customers at
				  other than the standard service pressure, the utility shall define in its rules
				  and/or gas sales contracts bases for measurement of a cubic foot of gas. Unless
				  otherwise stated, such cubic foot of gas shall be that quantity of gas which,
				  at a temperature of 60º F, and at absolute pressure of 14.73 pounds per
				  square inch (30 inches of mercury) occupies one cubic foot.
(c) The standard cubic foot of gas for
				  testing the gas itself for heating value shall be that volume of gas which,
				  when saturated with water vapor and at a temperature of 60º F, and under a
				  pressure equivalent to that of 30 inches of mercury (mercury at 32º F and
				  under standard gravity) occupies one cubic foot.