New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 17 - PUBLIC UTILITIES AND UTILITY SERVICES › Chapter 9 - ELECTRIC SERVICES › Part 560 - SERVICE STANDARDS FOR ELECTRIC UTILITIES › Section 17.9.560.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
When used in 17.9.560 NMAC unless otherwise specified the
				  following definitions will apply:
A.
"commission means"
the New Mexico public regulation
				commission;
B.
"customer
				means"
any person, firm, association, or corporation, or any agency of
				the federal, state, or local government being supplied with and responsible for
				payment for electric services by an electric utility;
C.
"electric plant means"
all
				plant, property, or facilities owned, operated, leased, or controlled for the
				generation, transmission, or distribution of electricity;
D.
"filed rule means"
rules and
				regulations filed by a utility with the commission in compliance with 17.1.210
				NMAC which has been made effective either through commission approval thereof
				or by operation of law;
E.
"final notice means"
personal communication with a non-residential
				customer by telephone, hand delivery or other electronic communications at
				least two days prior to the specific date of discontinuance of service or, if
				by mail, at least four days prior to the specific date of discontinuance of
				service, excluding Sundays and holidays observed by the utility, to remind the
				non-residential customer of the pending date of discontinuance of
				service.
F.
"meter
				means",
unless otherwise qualified, a device that measures and registers
				the integral of an electrical quantity with respect to time;
G.
"meter shop means"
a shop
				where meters are inspected, repaired, and tested and may be at a fixed location
				or may be mobile and shall contain facilities for protected storage of
				secondary standards;
H.
"meter standards laboratory means"
a facility which is equipped
				and staffed to provide the calibration and certification of secondary standards
				by comparison with primary standards;
I.
"premises means"
a piece of
				land or real estate including buildings and other appurtenances
				thereon;
J.
"primary
				standards means"
those items of laboratory equipment from which the
				basic units of electricity and standard time interval can be obtained for use
				in a meter standards laboratory;
K.
"protected storage means"
an enclosed case or cabinet in a clean
				location free from excessive heat, moisture, and vibration for the storage and
				protection of secondary standards and which is accessible only to authorized
				personnel;
L.
"secondary
				indicating ammeter standard means"
an indicating ammeter standard which
				is in a semi-fixed installation in the protected storage of the meter shop and
				is used for calibrating the working ammeter standard; this standard remains in
				the protected storage at all times except when sent to a meter standards
				laboratory for standardization;
M.
"secondary indicating voltmeter standard means"
an indicating
				voltmeter standard which is in a semi-fixed installation in the protected
				storage of the meter shop and is used for calibrating the working voltmeter
				standard; this standard remains in the protected storage at all times except
				when sent to a meter standards laboratory for standardization;
N.
"secondary instrument transformer
				standard means"
an instrument transformer standard which is in a
				semi-fixed installation in the protected storage of the meter shop and is used
				for calibrating the working transformer standard; this standard remains in the
				protected storage at all times except when sent to a meter standards laboratory
				for standardization;
O.
"secondary watt-hour standard means"
an indicating watt-hour standard
				which is in a semi-fixed installation in the protected storage of the meter
				shop and is used for calibrating the working watt-hour standard; this standard
				remains in the protected storage at all times except when sent to a meter
				standards laboratory for standardization;
P.
"special contract means"
a
				written agreement between a utility and a customer to establish a rate or
				conditions of utility service, or both, that, due to size or load
				characteristics or both, differs from those established for general classes of
				service;
Q. "
utility and
				electric utility"
has the meaning given for "public utility" or
				"utility" in Section
				62-3-3
				NMSA 1978.