Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4901 - Public Utilities Commission (PUCO) - Administration and Director › Chapter 4901-1 - Administrative Provisions and Procedure › Section 4901-1-01 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
As used in this chapter:
(A)
								"Administrative
			 law judge" (ALJ) has the same meaning attributed to attorney examiner; the
			 terms are interchangeable throughout these and other commission rules and both
			 terms refer to the positions authorized under section
			 4901.18 of the Revised
			 Code.
(B) "Business day"
			 means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.
(C)
			 "Commission" means the public utilities commission.
(D) "Docketing
			 information system" means the commission's system for electronically storing
			 documents filed in a case. The internet address of the docketing information
			 system is
http://dis.puc.state.oh.us
.
(E)
			 "Electric utility" means an electric light company as defined in section
			 4905.03 of the Revised Code and
			 an electric services company as defined in section
			 4928.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(F) "Electronic filing"
			 (e-filing) means the submission of digitized electronic files to the
			 commission's docketing information system.
(G) "Electronic mail"
			 (email)
			 means the exchange of digital messages across the internet or other computer
			 network.
(H) "Emergency rate
			 proceeding" means any case involving an application for an emergency rate
			 adjustment filed under section
			 4909.16 of the Revised
			 Code.
(I) "Facsimile
			 transmission" (fax) means the transmission of a source document by a facsimile
			 machine or other electronic device that encodes a document into signals and
			 transmits and reconstructs the signals to print a duplicate of the source
			 document at the commission's docketing division or a party's
			 location.
(J) "Gas utility" means
			 a gas or natural gas company as defined in section
			 4905.03 of the Revised
			 Code.
(K) "General rate
			 proceeding" means any case involving an application for an increase in rates
			 filed under section 4909.18 of the Revised Code, a
			 complaint or petition filed under section
			 4909.34 or
			 4909.35 of the Revised Code, or
			 an investigation into the reasonableness of a public utility's rates initiated
			 by the commission under section
			 4905.26 of the Revised
			 Code.
(L) "Long-term forecast
			 report" has the meaning set forth in section
			 4935.04 of the Revised Code.
(M) "Person" means a
			 person, firm, corporation, unincorporated association, government agency, the
			 United States, the state of Ohio or one of its political subdivisions, or any
			 other legally cognizable entity including any entity defined as a "person" in
			 division (A) of section
			 4906.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(N) "Presiding hearing
			 officer" means the commissioner or 
								ALJ presiding at a public
			 hearing or prehearing conference.
(O) "Private motor
			 carrier" has the meaning set forth in section
			 4923.02 of the Revised
			 Code.
(P) "Public utility"
			 has the meaning set forth in section
			 4905.02 of the Revised
			 Code.
(Q) "Purchased gas
			 adjustment proceeding" means any proceeding heard under section
			 4905.302 of the Revised Code and
			 rule 4901:1-14-08 of the
			 Administrative Code.
(R) "Railroad" has the
			 meaning set forth in section
			 4907.02 of the Revised
			 Code.
(S) "Reporting person"
			 means any person 
								filing a long-term forecast report under section
			 4935.04 of the Revised
			 Code.