South Carolina Code of Regulations › Chapter 103 - PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION › Article 3 - ELECTRIC SYSTEMS › Subarticle 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 103-302 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 6, June 28, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in these rules and
				  regulations, shall have the meaning indicated below.
1. Commission. The Public Service Commission
				of South Carolina.
2. Consolidated
				Political Subdivision. The term 'consolidated political subdivision' means a
				consolidated political subdivision existing pursuant to the Constitution of
				this State, and shall not be deemed a city, town, county, special purpose
				district, or other governmental unit merged thereinto.
3. Customer. Any person, firm, association,
				establishment, partnership, or corporation, or any agency of the Federal, State
				or local government, being supplied with electric service by an electrical
				utility under the jurisdiction of this commission.
4. Electric Supplier. The term 'electric
				supplier' means any electrical utility other than a municipality, and means any
				electric cooperative other than an electric cooperative engaged primarily in
				the business of furnishing electricity to other electric cooperatives for
				resale to other electric consumers, and any consolidated political subdivision
				owning or operating an electric plant or system for furnishing of electricity
				to the public for compensation.
5.
				Electric System. The term 'electric system' means any electrical utility,
				electric supplier, utility, electric cooperative, public utility district,
				governmental body or agency, including consolidated political subdivisions, or
				another person or corporation supplying electric service to the public to the
				extent covered by the applicable Sections of the S. C. Code of Laws.
6. Electrical Utility. The term 'electrical
				utility' includes municipalities to the extent of their business, property,
				rates, transactions, and operations outside the corporate limits of the
				municipality, or persons, associations, firms, establishments, partnerships and
				corporations, their lessees, assignees, trustees, receivers, or other
				successors in interest owning or operating in this State equipment or
				facilities for generating, transmitting, delivering or furnishing electricity
				for street, railway or other public uses or for the production of light, heat
				or power to or for the public for compensation; but it shall not include an
				electric cooperative or a consolidated political subdivision and shall not
				include a person, corporation, special purpose district or municipality
				furnishing electricity only to himself or itself, their resident employees or
				tenants when such current is not resold or used by others.
7. Municipality. The term 'municipality' when
				used in these Rules and Regulations includes a city, town, county, township and
				any other corporation existing, created or organized as a governmental unit
				under the Constitution or laws of this State except a 'Consolidated Political
				Subdivision'.
8. ORS. The South
				Carolina Office of Regulatory Staff.
9. Rate. The term 'rate' when used in these
				rules and regulations means and includes every compensation, charge, toll,
				rental and classification, or any of them, demanded, observed, charged, or
				collected by any electrical utility for any electric current or service offered
				by it to the public, and any rules, regulations, practices or contracts
				affecting any such compensation, charge, toll, rental or
				classification.
10. Utility. Every
				privately-owned corporation, firm or person furnishing or supplying electric
				service to the public, or any portion thereof, for compensation.
11. Local Office or Business Office. These
				terms mean that in the event an electrical utility operates a local office or
				business office set forth in this article, then the electrical utility shall
				comply with the requirements of the section or subsection of the regulation
				addressing such local office or business office. In the event the utility does
				not operate a local office or business office, the section or subsection of the
				regulation does not apply to the electrical utility.
12. Mail. The term "mail" means a
				communication sent by U.S. Mail or the notice method selected by the electrical
				utility customer and maintained in the customer's records at the electrical
				utility.