Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 54 > Chapter 4 - Authority of Commission Over Public Utilities

• Adjudicative proceeding: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Administrator: includes "executor" when the subject matter justifies the use. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Commission: means the Public Service Commission. See Utah Code 54-2-1
• Commissioner: means a member of the commission. See Utah Code 54-2-1
• Corporation: includes an association and a joint stock company having any powers or privileges not possessed by individuals or partnerships. See Utah Code 54-2-1
• Department: means the Department of Transportation created in Section 72-1-201. See Utah Code 54-2-1
• Electrical corporation: includes every corporation, cooperative association, and person, their lessees, trustees, and receivers, owning, controlling, operating, or managing any electric plant, or in any way furnishing electric power for public service or to its consumers or members for domestic, commercial, or industrial use, within this state. See Utah Code 54-2-1
• Eligible customer: means a person who:

  (a)

  on December 31, 2013: (i)  was a customer of a public utility that, on December 31, 2013, had more than 200,000 retail customers in this state; and (ii)  owned an electric plant that is an electric generation plant that, on December 31, 2013, had a generation name plate capacity of greater than 150 megawatts; and

  (b)

  produces electricity: (i)  from a qualifying power production facility for sale to a public utility in this state; (ii)  primarily for the eligible customer's own use; or (iii)  for the use of the eligible customer's tenant or affiliate. See Utah Code 54-2-1 Executive director: means the executive director of the department appointed under Section 26B-1-203. See Utah Code 26B-1-102 Gas corporation: includes every corporation and person, their lessees, trustees, and receivers, owning, controlling, operating, or managing any gas plant for public service within this state or for the selling or furnishing of natural gas to any consumer or consumers within the state for domestic, commercial, or industrial use, except in the situation that: (a)  gas is made or produced on, and distributed by the maker or producer through, private property: (i)  solely for the maker's or producer's own use or the use of the maker's or producer's tenants; and (ii)  not for sale to others; (b)  gas is compressed on private property solely for the owner's own use or the use of the owner's employees as a motor vehicle fuel; or (c)  gas is compressed by a retailer of motor vehicle fuel on the retailer's property solely for sale as a motor vehicle fuel. See Utah Code 54-2-1 Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. Source: OCC Heat corporation: includes every corporation and person, their lessees, trustees, and receivers, owning, controlling, operating, or managing any heating plant for public service within this state. See Utah Code 54-2-1 Large-scale electric utility: means a public utility that provides retail electric service to more than 200,000 retail customers in the state. See Utah Code 54-2-1 Large-scale natural gas utility: means a public utility that provides retail natural gas service to more than 200,000 retail customers in the state. See Utah Code 54-2-1 Outlays: Outlays are payments made (generally through the issuance of checks or disbursement of cash) to liquidate obligations. Outlays during a fiscal year may be for payment of obligations incurred in prior years or in the same year. Public utility: includes every railroad corporation, gas corporation, electrical corporation, distribution electrical cooperative, wholesale electrical cooperative, telephone corporation, telegraph corporation, water corporation, sewerage corporation, heat corporation, and independent energy producer not described in Section 54-2-201 where the service is performed for, or the commodity delivered to, the public generally, or in the case of a gas corporation or electrical corporation where the gas or electricity is sold or furnished to any member or consumers within the state for domestic, commercial, or industrial use. See Utah Code 54-2-1 Sewerage corporation: includes every corporation and person, their lessees, trustees, and receivers, owning, controlling, operating, or managing any sewerage system for public service within this state. See Utah Code 54-2-1 Swear: includes "affirm. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Telegraph corporation: includes every corporation and person, their lessees, trustees, and receivers, owning, controlling, operating, or managing any telegraph line for public service within this state. See Utah Code 54-2-1 Telephone corporation: means any corporation or person, and their lessees, trustee, receivers, or trustees appointed by any court, who owns, controls, operates, manages, or resells a public telecommunications service as defined in Section 54-8b-2. See Utah Code 54-2-1 Town: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Utility vehicle charging service: means the furnishing of electricity: (a)  to an electric vehicle battery charging station; (b)  by a public utility in whose service area the charging station is located; and (c)  pursuant to a duly established tariff for rates, charges, and conditions of service for the electricity. See Utah Code 54-2-1 Utility-owned vehicle charging infrastructure: means all facilities, equipment, and electrical systems owned and installed by a large-scale electric utility: (a)  on the customer's side or the large-scale electric utility's side of the electricity metering equipment; and (b)  to facilitate utility vehicle charging service or other electric vehicle battery charging service. See Utah Code 54-2-1 Water corporation: includes every corporation and person, their lessees, trustees, and receivers, owning, controlling, operating, or managing any water system for public service within this state. See Utah Code 54-2-1 Wholesale electrical cooperative: includes every electrical corporation that is: (a)  in the business of the wholesale distribution of electricity it has purchased or generated to its members and the public; and (b)  required to distribute or allocate savings in excess of additions to reserves and surplus to members or patrons on the basis of patronage. See Utah Code 54-2-1