New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 17 - PUBLIC UTILITIES AND UTILITY SERVICES
Chapter 9 - ELECTRIC SERVICES
Part 560 - SERVICE STANDARDS FOR ELECTRIC UTILITIES
Section 17.9.560.7 - DEFINITIONS

A. "commission means" the New Mexico public regulation commission;

B. "customer means" any person, firm, association, or corporation, or any agency of the federal, state, or local government being supplied with and responsible for payment for electric services by an electric utility;

C. "electric plant means" all plant, property, or facilities owned, operated, leased, or controlled for the generation, transmission, or distribution of electricity;

D. "filed rule means" rules and regulations filed by a utility with the commission in compliance with 17.1.210 NMAC which has been made effective either through commission approval thereof or by operation of law;

E. "final notice means" personal communication with a non-residential customer by telephone, hand delivery or other electronic communications at least two days prior to the specific date of discontinuance of service or, if by mail, at least four days prior to the specific date of discontinuance of service, excluding Sundays and holidays observed by the utility, to remind the non-residential customer of the pending date of discontinuance of service.

F. "meter means", unless otherwise qualified, a device that measures and registers the integral of an electrical quantity with respect to time;

G. "meter shop means" a shop where meters are inspected, repaired, and tested and may be at a fixed location or may be mobile and shall contain facilities for protected storage of secondary standards;

H. "meter standards laboratory means" a facility which is equipped and staffed to provide the calibration and certification of secondary standards by comparison with primary standards;

I. "premises means" a piece of land or real estate including buildings and other appurtenances thereon;

J. "primary standards means" those items of laboratory equipment from which the basic units of electricity and standard time interval can be obtained for use in a meter standards laboratory;

K. "protected storage means" an enclosed case or cabinet in a clean location free from excessive heat, moisture, and vibration for the storage and protection of secondary standards and which is accessible only to authorized personnel;

L. "secondary indicating ammeter standard means" an indicating ammeter standard which is in a semi-fixed installation in the protected storage of the meter shop and is used for calibrating the working ammeter standard; this standard remains in the protected storage at all times except when sent to a meter standards laboratory for standardization;

M. "secondary indicating voltmeter standard means" an indicating voltmeter standard which is in a semi-fixed installation in the protected storage of the meter shop and is used for calibrating the working voltmeter standard; this standard remains in the protected storage at all times except when sent to a meter standards laboratory for standardization;

N. "secondary instrument transformer standard means" an instrument transformer standard which is in a semi-fixed installation in the protected storage of the meter shop and is used for calibrating the working transformer standard; this standard remains in the protected storage at all times except when sent to a meter standards laboratory for standardization;

O. "secondary watt-hour standard means" an indicating watt-hour standard which is in a semi-fixed installation in the protected storage of the meter shop and is used for calibrating the working watt-hour standard; this standard remains in the protected storage at all times except when sent to a meter standards laboratory for standardization;

P. "special contract means" a written agreement between a utility and a customer to establish a rate or conditions of utility service, or both, that, due to size or load characteristics or both, differs from those established for general classes of service;

Q. "utility and electric utility" has the meaning given for "public utility" or "utility" in Section 62-3-3 NMSA 1978.