Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4901:1 - Utilities › Chapter 4901:1-13 - Gas Companies › Section 4901:1-13-01 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1,
			 2024
As used in this chapter:
(A) "Bona fide dispute" means a reasonable
			 dispute registered with the commission's call center or a formal complaint
			 filed with the commission's docketing division.
(B) "Business day" means, for purposes of
			 initiation or installation of service, a day when a gas or natural gas company
			 performs regularly scheduled installation and, for all other purposes, a day
			 when the provider observes regularly scheduled customer service office
			 hours.
(C) "Commission" means the
			 public utilities commission of Ohio.
(D) "Company" means a gas or natural gas
			 company as defined in section
			 4905.03 of the Revised
			 Code.
(E) "Consumer" means any
			 person who receives service from a gas or natural gas company.
(F) "Competitive retail natural gas service"
			 or "CRNGS" has the meaning set forth in section
			 4929.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(G) "Customer" means any
			 person who has an agreement, by contract and/or tariff, with a gas or natural
			 gas company to receive service or any person who requests or makes application
			 for service from a gas or natural gas company.
(H) "Customer premises" means the
			 residence(s), building(s), or office(s) of a customer.
(I) "Fraudulent practice" means an
			 intentional misrepresentation or concealment of a material fact that the gas or
			 natural gas company relies on to its detriment. Fraudulent practice does not
			 include tampering or unauthorized reconnection of gas service.
(J) "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.
(K) "Governmental aggregator"
			 
								has the meaning set forth in section
			 4929.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(L) "Manometer" means an
			 instrument for measuring the pressure of gas or natural gas.
(M) "Natural gas company" means a company
			 that meets the definition of a natural 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.
(N) "Nonresidential gas
			 service" means a gas or natural gas service provided to any location where the
			 use is primarily of a business, professional, institutional, or occupational
			 nature.
(O) "Person" includes an
			 individual, corporation, company, co-partnership, association, or joint
			 venture.
(P) "Postmark" means a
			 mark, including a date, stamped or imprinted on a piece of mail which serves to
			 record the date of its mailing. For electronic mail, postmark means the date the electronic mail
			 was transmitted.
(Q) "Pounds per
			 square inch gauge" refers to a measurement when testing gas pressure.
(R) "Residential gas service" means a gas or
			 natural gas service provided to any location where the use is primarily of a
			 domestic nature.
(S) "Retail
			 natural gas supplier" has the meaning set forth in section
			 4929.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(T) "Slamming" means the
			 transfer of or requesting the transfer of a customer's competitive natural gas
			 service to another provider without obtaining the customer's consent.
(U) "Small commercial customer" means a
			 commercial customer which is not a mercantile customer under division (L) of
			 section 4929.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(V) "Small gas company" means
			 a gas company serving seventy-five thousand or fewer customers.
(W) "Small natural gas company" means a
			 natural gas company serving seventy-five thousand or fewer customers.
(X) "Tampering" means to interfere with,
			 damage, or bypass a utility meter, gas line, or gas facilities with the intent
			 to impede the correct registration of a meter or the proper functions of a gas
			 line or gas facilities so far as to reduce the amount of utility service that
			 is registered on or reported by the meter. Tampering includes the unauthorized
			 reconnection of a utility meter, gas line, or gas facility that has been
			 disconnected by the utility.