Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 262j - Security Deposits Required by Gas or Electric Companies › Section 16-262j-1 - Security deposits

Current through July 10, 2024
(a)
Definitions.
As used in this section:
(1) "Utility company" or "company" means gas
			 or electric distribution company, electric supplier or other entity within the
			 jurisdiction of the department of public utility control which provides utility
			 service. Any companies under common ownership may be deemed by such companies
			 to be one company for the purposes of this section;
(2) "Utility service" means gas, electric
			 distribution, transmission or generation service provided by a company to a
			 residential customer at retail rates;
(3) "Residential customer" means any person
			 to whom a utility company has agreed to supply utility service at residential
			 premises occupied by that person alone or with others as a single housekeeping
			 unit;
(4) "Prospective residential
			 customer" means any person who has requested or proposes to initiate utility
			 service from a company as a residential customer;
(5) "New customer" means a prospective
			 residential customer who has not been a residential customer of the company for
			 at least two of the past three years;
(6) "Delinquent account" means a utility
			 service bill which has remained unpaid for a period of more than thirty days
			 from the date of receipt of a bill rendered by or on behalf of a utility
			 company which bills upon a monthly basis; or a utility service bill which has
			 remained unpaid for a period of more than sixty days from the date of receipt
			 of a bill rendered by or on behalf of a utility company which bills on a
			 bi-monthly or quarterly basis. Any subsequent bills for the same type of
			 utility service for which a delinquent account exists shall be considered part
			 of said delinquent account upon receipt thereof. No partial payment of any
			 delinquent account shall affect the delinquent status of the amount remaining
			 unpaid on such account;
(7) "A
			 customer who lacks the financial ability to pay a security deposit" means:
(A) A person receiving local, state, or
			 federal public assistance including but not limited to:
(i) Aid to the blind;
(ii) Aid to families with dependent children
			 or temporary family assistance;
(iii) Old age assistance;
(iv) Aid to the disabled;
(v) Medicaid;
(vi) Supplemental security income;
			 or
(vii) General assistance or
			 state administered general assistance;
(B) A person whose sole source of financial
			 support is derived from social security, veteran's administration or
			 unemployment compensation benefits;
(C) A person whose income falls below one
			 hundred twenty five per cent of the poverty level as determined by the federal
			 government in accordance with the income poverty guidelines from the regional
			 office of family assistance, department of health, education, and welfare or
			 its successor agency; or
(D) A
			 person whose circumstances threaten a deprivation of the necessities of life
			 for himself or herself or dependent children of his or her household if payment
			 of a security deposit is required; and
(8) "Department" means the department of
			 public utility control or its successor.