Sec. 5. A power subsidiary or a person engaged as a public utility is a retail merchant making a retail transaction when the subsidiary or person furnishes or sells electrical energy, natural or artificial gas, water, steam, or steam heating service to a person for commercial or domestic consumption.

As added by Acts 1980, P.L.52, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.48-1984, SEC.1; P.L.71-1993, SEC.4; P.L.81-2004, SEC.19; P.L.190-2005, SEC.1; P.L.203-2005, SEC.3; P.L.162-2006, SEC.21; P.L.180-2006, SEC.3; P.L.1-2007, SEC.51; P.L.32-2007, SEC.1; P.L.58-2012, SEC.2; P.L.137-2012, SEC.46; P.L.288-2013, SEC.28; P.L.137-2022, SEC.19.