Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 20 - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND INSURANCE › Division 4240 - Public Service Commission › Chapter 2 - Practice and Procedure › Section 20 CSR 4240-2.010 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This rule defines terms used in the rules
				  comprising Chapter 2, Practice and Procedure, and supplements those definitions
				  found in Chapter 386 of the
Missouri Revised
				  Statutes
.
(1)
				Applicant means any person, as defined herein, or public utility on whose
				behalf an application is made.
(2)
				Certificate of service means a document or page of a document showing the
				caption of the case, attorney of record served or the name of the party served,
				the date and manner of service, and the signature of the serving party or
				attorney.
(3) Commission means the
				Missouri Public Service Commission as created by Chapter 386 of the
Missouri Revised Statutes
.
(4) Commissioner means one (1) of the members
				of the commission.
(5) Commission
				staff means all personnel employed by the commission whether on a permanent or
				contractual basis except commissioners; commissioner support staff, including
				technical advisory staff; personnel in the secretary's office; and personnel in
				the general counsel's office, including personnel in the adjudication
				department. Employees in the staff counsel's office are members of the
				commission staff.
(6) Complainant
				means the commission, any person, corporation, municipality, political
				subdivision, the Office of the Public Counsel, the commission staff through the
				staff counsel's office, or public utility who files a complaint with the
				commission.
(7) Corporation
				includes a corporation, company, association, or joint stock company or
				association, or any other entity created by statute which is allowed to conduct
				business in the state of Missouri.
(8) General counsel means the attorney who
				serves as counsel to the commission and includes the general counsel and all
				other attorneys who serve in the office of the general counsel, but does not
				include attorneys employed in the staff counsel's office. The general counsel
				appears for the commission and performs all duties and services as attorney and
				counsel to the commission which the commission may reasonably
				require.
(9) Oath means attestation
				by a person signifying that he or she is bound in conscience and by the laws
				regarding perjury, either by swearing or affirmation to tell the
				truth.
(10) Party includes any
				applicant, complainant, petitioner, respondent, intervenor, or public utility
				in proceedings before the commission. Commission staff and the public counsel
				are also parties unless they file a notice of their intention not to
				participate within the period of time established for interventions by
				commission rule or order.
(11)
				Person includes a natural person, corporation, municipality, political
				subdivision, state or federal agency, and a partnership.
(12) Pleading means any written document,
				including any exhibits or other attachments, filed with the commission that
				seeks a specific action or remedy, except that briefs and tariffs are not
				pleadings under this definition.
(13) Political subdivision means any
				township, city, town, village, and any school, road, drainage, sewer, and levee
				district, or any other public subdivision, public corporation, or public
				quasi-corporation having the power to tax.
(14) Presiding officer means a commissioner,
				or a law judge licensed to practice law in the state of Missouri and appointed
				by the commission to preside over a case or any portion of a case.
(15) Public counsel means the Office of the
				Public Counsel as created by the Omnibus State Reorganization Act of 1974 and
				includes the assistants who represent the public before the
				commission.
(16) Public utility
				includes every pipeline corporation, gas corporation, electrical corporation,
				telecommunications corporation, water corporation, heat or refrigeration
				corporation, sewer corporation, any joint municipal utility commission pursuant
				to section
				386.020, RSMo, which
				is regulated by the commission, or any other entity described by statute as a
				public utility which is to be regulated by the commission.
(17) Respondent means any person as defined
				herein or public utility subject to regulation by the commission against whom
				any complaint is filed.
(18) Rule
				means all of these rules as a whole or the individual rule in which the word
				appears, whichever interpretation is consistent with the rational application
				of this chapter.
(19) Settlement
				officer means a presiding officer who has been delegated to facilitate the
				settlement of a case.
(20) Schedule
				means any attachment, table, supplement, list, output, or any other document
				affixed to an exhibit.
(21) Staff
				counsel means any attorney employed to represent the commission staff in
				proceedings before the commission.
*Original authority: 386.410, RSMo 1939, amended 1947,
					 1977, 1996.