Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 10 > Chapter 19 > Part 1 - General Provisions

• Adjudicative proceeding: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Commission: means the Public Service Commission. See Utah Code 10-19-102
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Division: means the Division of Consumer Protection. See Utah Code 13-26-2
• 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.
• Municipal: means of or relating to a municipality. See Utah Code 10-1-104
• Municipal electric utility: means any municipality that owns, operates, controls, or manages a facility that provides electric power for a retail customer, whether domestic, commercial, industrial, or otherwise. See Utah Code 10-19-102
• Municipality: means :

  (a)	a city of the first class, city of the second class, city of the third class, city of the fourth class, city of the fifth class;

  (b)	a town, as classified in Section 10-2-301; or

  (c)

  a metro township as that term is defined in Section 10-2a-403 unless the term is used in the context of authorizing, governing, or otherwise regulating the provision of municipal services. See Utah Code 10-1-104 Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, organization, association, trust, governmental agency, or any other legal entity. See Utah Code 10-1-104 Premium: means a gift, bonus, prize, award, certificate, or other document by which a prospective purchaser is given a right, chance, or privilege to purchase or receive goods or services with a stated or represented value of $25 or more as an inducement to a prospective purchaser to purchase other goods or services. See Utah Code 13-26-2 Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Qualifying carbon sequestration generation: means a fossil-fueled generating facility located within the geographic boundary of the Western Electricity Coordinating Council that: (a)  becomes operational or is retrofitted on or after January 1, 2008; and (b)  reduces carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere through permanent geological sequestration or through other verifiably permanent reductions in carbon dioxide emissions through the use of technology. See Utah Code 10-19-102 Qualifying electricity: means electricity generated on or after January 1, 1995 from a renewable energy source if: (a)  (i)  the renewable energy source is located within the geographic boundary of the Western Electricity Coordinating Council; or (ii)  the qualifying electricity is delivered to the transmission system of a municipal electric utility or a delivery point designated by the municipal electric utility for the purpose of subsequent delivery to the municipal electric utility; and (b)  the renewable energy attributes of the electricity are not traded, sold, transferred, or otherwise used to satisfy another state's renewable energy program. See Utah Code 10-19-102 Renewable energy certificate: means a certificate issued in accordance with the requirements of Sections 10-19-202 and 54-17-603. See Utah Code 10-19-102 Renewable energy source: means : (a)  an electric generation facility or generation capability or upgrade that becomes operational on or after January 1, 1995 that derives its energy from one or more of the following: (i)  wind energy; (ii)  solar photovoltaic and solar thermal energy; (iii)  wave, tidal, and ocean thermal energy; (iv)  except for combustion of wood that has been treated with chemical preservatives such as creosote, pentachlorophenol or chromated copper arsenate, biomass and biomass byproducts, including: (A)  organic waste; (B)  forest or rangeland woody debris from harvesting or thinning conducted to improve forest or rangeland ecological health and to reduce wildfire risk; (C)  agricultural residues; (D)  dedicated energy crops; and (E)  landfill gas or biogas produced from organic matter, wastewater, anaerobic digesters, or municipal solid waste; (v)  geothermal energy located outside the state; (vi)  waste gas and waste heat capture or recovery whether or not it is renewable, including methane gas from: (A)  an abandoned coal mine; or (B)  a coal degassing operation associated with a state-approved mine permit; (vii)  efficiency upgrades to a hydroelectric facility, without regard to the date upon which the facility became operational, if the upgrades become operational on or after January 1, 1995; (viii)  a compressed air energy storage process, if: (A)  the process used to compress the air is a renewable energy source and the associated renewable energy certificates are retired for the purpose of the compressed air energy storage process; or (B)  equivalent renewable energy certificates are obtained and retired for the purpose of the compressed air energy storage process; or (ix)  municipal solid waste; (b)  any of the following: (i)  up to 50 average megawatts of electricity per year per municipal electric utility from a certified low-impact hydroelectric facility, without regard to the date upon which the facility becomes operational, if the facility is certified as a low-impact hydroelectric facility on or after January 1, 1995, by a national certification organization; (ii)  geothermal energy if located within the state, without regard to the date upon which the facility becomes operational; and (iii)  hydroelectric energy if located within the state, without regard to the date upon which the facility becomes operational; (c)  hydrogen gas derived from any source of energy described in Subsection (11)(a) or (b); (d)  if an electric generation facility employs multiple energy sources, that portion of the electricity generated that is attributable to energy sources described in Subsections (11)(a) through (c); and (e)  any of the following located in the state and owned by a user of energy: (i)  a demand side management measure, as defined by Subsection 54-7-12. See Utah Code 10-19-102 Seller: means a person, or a group of persons engaged in a common effort to conduct a telephone solicitation, that: (a)  on behalf of the person, or the group of persons engaged in a common effort to conduct a telephone solicitation: (i)  makes a telephone solicitation; or (ii)  causes a telephone solicitation to be made; or (b)  through a telephone solicitor: (i)  makes a telephone solicitation; or (ii)  causes a telephone solicitation to be made. See Utah Code 13-26-2 solicitor: means an individual who engages in a telephone solicitation on behalf of a seller. See Utah Code 13-26-2 State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5