New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 17 - PUBLIC UTILITIES AND UTILITY SERVICES
Chapter 12 - WATER SERVICES
Part 770 - SMALL WATER UTILITIES
Section 17.12.770.7 - DEFINITIONS
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
In addition to the definitions in 17.12.1.7 NMAC, certain terms as used in this rule are defined as follows.
A. Advice notice means a listing by a water utility of proposed changes in tariff schedules and proposed effective dates that has been provided to the public and filed with the commission.
B. Operating district or division means any area of utility operations which is geographically distinct and distant from other utility operations, and which would otherwise be operated as a separate stand-alone utility but for its classification as a business unit within the single utility.
C. Rate shall have the meaning given in Section 62-3-3 H NMSA 1978.
D. Ratepayer means a person in whose name service is carried. As stated in Section 62-8-7.1 A NMSA 1978 "each person who receives a separate bill equals one ratepayer and each person who receives multiple bills equals one ratepayer."
E. Small water utility means a public utility as defined in Sections 62-3-3 G(3) NMSA 1978 with less than an aggregate of five thousand (5,000) service connections in any utility operating district or division in New Mexico averaged over the previous three (3) consecutive years.
