Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 165 - Corporation Commission › Chapter 5 - Aboveground Storage Tanks › Subchapter 3 - Fees › Part 3 - PUBLIC UTILITY ASSESSMENT FEES › Section 165:5-3-21 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this Part,
					 shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates
					 otherwise:
"Director"
means the Director of the Public
					 Utility Division of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission.
"Filing tariffs with the Commission"
means
					 submission of the tariffs to the Director.
"Fiscal year"
means the period beginning July
					 1 and ending June 30 of each year.
"Public utility"
means:
(A) Those companies as defined by 17 O.S. §
										151,
					 excluding those companies encompassed by paragraph (d) of Section 151.
(B) Any telephone or telecommunications company subject to
					 17 O.S. §
										131
					 et seq., including inter exchange telecommunications companies as defined by
					 165:55-1-4, resellers
					 as defined by 165:56, operator service providers as defined by 165:57, and pay
					 phone service providers as defined by 165:58.
(C) Any association or cooperative corporation doing
					 business under the Rural Electric Cooperative Act except for generation and
					 transmission associations or cooperative corporations, or transmission
					 associations or cooperative corporations.
"Regulated Oklahoma jurisdictional gross operating
					 revenues"
means those revenues which are recorded in the accounts of the
					 public utility, resulting from sales of commodities or services provided to
					 Regulated Oklahoma Jurisdictional Customers. For telecommunications companies
					 this shall include, but should not be limited to, revenues received for
					 intrastate services from all Oklahoma and Federal universal service and low
					 income funds for regulated and non-regulated services, revenues received from
					 the Oklahoma Universal Service Fund for Special Universal Services, revenues
					 received from the Oklahoma Universal Service Fund for Primary Universal
					 Services, and revenues received from the Oklahoma Lifeline Fund and Federal
					 Lifeline support received pursuant to 47 CFR Subpart E. The inclusion of
					 revenues described in the previous sentence as Regulated Oklahoma
					 jurisdictional gross operating revenues shall be for the limited purpose of the
					 calculation of allocations for payment into the Public Utility Assessment Fee
					 according to this Part 3 of Subchapter 3 of OAC 165:5 and shall not be
					 construed as affecting the jurisdictional nature of the funds as determined by
					 the telecommunications companies in accordance with 47 CFR Parts 32 and 36 for
					 separations purposes or other purposes such as determining jurisdictional tax
					 liability.
"Regulated Oklahoma Jurisdictional Customers"
means any person, member of a cooperative, firm, corporation, municipality or
					 agency, other political subdivision, or the United States or the State of
					 Oklahoma, receiving utility service from a public utility pursuant to rates and
					 charges established by, or filed with the Commission and recipients of Special
					 Universal Services as defined in 17 O.S. §
										139.102.
"Special Universal Services"
means the same as
					 is defined in 17 O.S. §
										139.102.
Added at 10 Ok Reg 4517, eff 9-1-93 (emergency) ; Added
						at 11 Ok Reg 3681, eff 7-11-94 ; Amended at 14 Ok Reg 2474, eff 7-1-97 ;
						Amended at 19 Ok Reg 1939, eff 7-1-02 ; Amended at 30 Ok Reg 1033, eff
						7-1-13