§ 40-201 Definitions
§ 40-202 Supervising and regulating public service corporations; telecommunications promotion; consumer protection; duty to comply
§ 40-203 Power of commission to determine and prescribe rates, rules and practices of public service corporations
§ 40-204 Reports by public service corporations to commission; duty of corporation to deliver documents to commission; confidential nature of information furnished; exception; classification
§ 40-205 Regulation of commercial flight operators by commission prohibited; definitions
§ 40-206 Exemption of motor carriers
§ 40-209 Franchises; electric generation suppliers; limitations
§ 40-210 Contractors; requirements; prohibition; definition
§ 40-211 Public service corporations; electronic filings
§ 40-212 Internet protocol services; definitions
§ 40-213 Electric charging providers; fees; definition

Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 40 > Chapter 2 > Article 1 - Regulation by Corporation Commission

  • Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Appliance application: means central space heating, clothes drying, water heating and indoor cooking. See Arizona Laws 40-201
  • Commission: means the corporation commission. See Arizona Laws 40-201
  • Common carrier: means a railroad or street railroad. See Arizona Laws 40-201
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Electric distribution facilities: means all property used in connection with the distribution of electricity from an electric generating plant to retail electric customers except electric transmission facilities. See Arizona Laws 40-201
  • Electric distribution service: means the distribution of electricity to retail electric customers through the use of electric distribution facilities. See Arizona Laws 40-201
  • Electric distribution utility: means a public service corporation or public power entity that operates, controls or maintains electric distribution facilities. See Arizona Laws 40-201
  • Electric generation service: means the provision of electricity for sale to retail electric customers but does not include electric distribution or transmission services and generation that are necessary for the reliable operation of the electric distribution or transmission system. See Arizona Laws 40-201
  • Electric transmission facilities: means all property so classified by the federal energy regulatory commission or, to the extent permitted by law, so classified by the Arizona corporation commission. See Arizona Laws 40-201
  • Electricity supplier: means a person, whether acting in a principal, agent or other capacity, that is a public service corporation that offers to sell electricity to a retail electric customer in this state. See Arizona Laws 40-201
  • including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Railroad: includes every railway, other than a street railroad, operated for public transportation of persons or property. See Arizona Laws 40-201
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Residential structure: means a detached owner-occupied or rental one or two family dwelling unit, an attached duplex or fourplex unit, a manufactured home, a residential factory-built building as defined in section 41-4001 or a mobile home designed to be used with a permanent structure, excluding real property used to accommodate more than four attached dwelling units. See Arizona Laws 40-201
  • Retail electric customer: means a person who purchases electricity for that person's own use, including use in that person's trade or business, and not for resale, redistribution or retransmission. See Arizona Laws 40-201
  • Service territory: means the geographic area in which a public power entity as defined in section 30-801 or public service corporation owns, operates, controls or maintains electric distribution facilities or natural gas distribution facilities and that additional area in which the public power entity or public service corporation has agreed to extend electric distribution facilities or natural gas distribution facilities, whether established by a certificate of convenience and necessity, by official action by a public power entity or by contract or agreement. See Arizona Laws 40-201
  • Street railroad: includes every railway operated along any street or public way for public transportation of persons or property, but does not include a commercial or interurban railway. See Arizona Laws 40-201
  • Transportation of persons: includes every service in connection with the carriage and delivery of a person and the person's baggage. See Arizona Laws 40-201
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215