Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4901:1 - Utilities › Chapter 4901:1-29 - Minimum Standards for Competitive Retail Natural Gas Service › Section 4901:1-29-01 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1,
			 2024
As used in this chapter:
(A) "Billing and collection agent" has the meaning set
			 forth in division (I) of section
			 4929.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(B) "Ccf" means one hundred cubic feet of natural
			 gas.
(C) "Commission" means the public utilities commission
			 of Ohio.
(D) "Commodity sales service" has the meaning set
			 forth in division (C) of section
			 4929.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(E) "Competitive retail natural gas service" has the
			 meaning set forth in division (J) of section
			 4929.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(F) "Complaint" means any customer/consumer contact
			 when such contact necessitates follow-up by or with the retail natural gas
			 
								supplier or governmental aggregator to resolve a point
			 of contention.
(G) "Consumer" has the meaning set forth in division
			 (E) of section 4929.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(H) "Contract" means an agreement between a customer
			 and retail natural gas supplier or governmental aggregator that specifies the
			 terms and conditions for provision of a competitive retail natural gas
			 service.
(I) "Customer" means a person who contracts with or is
			 solicited by a retail natural gas supplier or governmental aggregator for the
			 provision of a competitive retail natural gas service.
(J)
			 "Deposit" means a sum of money a retail natural gas supplier or governmental
			 aggregator collects from a customer as a precondition for initiating
			 service.
(K) "Direct solicitation or
			 enrollment" means face-to-face solicitation or
			 enrollment of a customer initiated by a retail natural gas supplier or
			 governmental aggregator at the home of a customer or at a place other than the
			 normal place of business of the retail natural gas supplier or governmental
			 aggregator and includes door-to-door solicitations.
(L) "Disclosure
			 statement" means any communication between a customer and governmental
			 aggregator including operation and governance plans and opt-out
			 notices.
(M) "Distribution service" has the meaning set forth
			 in division (F) of section
			 4929.01 of the Revised Code.
(N) "Existing customer" means a person who has a
			 contract with a retail natural gas supplier or governmental aggregator for the
			 provision of competitive retail natural gas service.
(O)
								 "Gas company"
			 means a company that meets the definition of a gas company set forth in section
			 4905.03 of the Revised Code and
			 that also meets the definition of a public utility under section
			 4905.02 of the Revised
			 Code.
(P) "Governmental aggregator" has the meaning set
			 forth in division (K)(1) of section
			 4929.01 of the Revised Code. For
			 purposes of this chapter, "governmental aggregator" specifically excludes a
			 municipal corporation acting exclusively under Section 4 of Article XVIII, Ohio
			 Constitution, as an aggregator for the provision of competitive retail natural
			 gas service.
(Q) "Mcf" means one thousand cubic feet of natural
			 gas.
(R) "Mercantile customer" has the meaning set forth in
			 division (L) of section
			 4929.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(S) "Natural gas company" has the meaning set forth in
			 division (G) of section
			 4929.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(T) "Opt-in governmental aggregator" means those
			 governmental aggregators who perform aggregation pursuant to section
			 4929.27 of the Revised
			 Code.
(U) "Opt-out governmental aggregator" means those
			 governmental aggregators who perform automatic governmental aggregation
			 pursuant to section 4929.26 of the Revised
			 Code.
(V) "Person" has the meaning set forth in division (H)
			 of section 4929.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(W) "Regulated sales service customer" means a person
			 who has an agreement by contract and/or tariff with a natural gas company or
			 gas company to receive regulated sales service.
(X) "Residential
			 customer" means a customer who contracts for a
			 competitive retail natural gas service for residential purposes.
(Y)
			 "Retail natural gas service" has the meaning set forth in division (M) of
			 section 4929.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(Z) "Retail natural gas supplier" has the meaning set
			 forth in division (N) of section
			 4929.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(AA) "Small commercial customer" means a commercial
			 customer which is not a mercantile commercial customer under paragraph
			 (R) of
			 this rule.
(BB) "Solicitation" means any communication intended
			 to elicit a customer's agreement to purchase or contract for a competitive
			 retail natural gas service.
(CC) "Staff" means
			 the commission staff.
(DD) "Toll-free"
			 means telephone access provided to a customer without toll charges to the
			 customer.
Effective: 12/1/2014
Five Year
				Review (FYR) Dates: 07/28/2014 and
				07/28/2019
Promulgated
				Under: 111.15
Statutory
				Authority: 4929.10,
				4929.22,
				4929.01
Rule
				Amplifies: 4929.01,
				4929.22,
				4929.26,
				4929.27
Prior
				Effective Dates: 7/4/02, 4/6/06,
				4/13/07