Rhode Island Code of Regulations
Title 815 - Division of Public Utilities and Carriers
Chapter 30 - Electric Utilities
Subchapter 00 - General Administration
Part 1 - Standards for Electric Utilities
Section 815-RICR-30-00-1.2 - Definitions

A. "Division" means the Rhode Island Division of Public Utilities and Carriers.

B. "Administrator" means Public Utility Administrator of the Division of Public Utilities and Carriers.

C. "Public utility" means and apply to every corporation, company, person, association of persons, their lessees, trustees, or receivers appointed to any court whatsoever, that now or hereafter may own, lease, operate, manage or control any electric plant or equipment or any part of any electric plant or equipment, within this State, for the production, transmission, delivery or furnishing of electricity, light, heat or power, either directly or indirectly, to or for the public.

D. "Electric plant" means all real estate, fixtures, equipment and personal property owned, controlled, operated or managed in connection with or to facilitate the production, generation, transmission, delivery or furnishing of electric energy.

E. "Customer" means and applies to every corporation, company, person, association of persons, their lessees, trustees or receivers appointed by any court whatsoever, that now or hereafter, may be supplied with electric service by any public utility as herein defined.

F. "Service" means, in its broadest and most inclusive sense, the furnishing of electricity to a customer by a public utility.

G. "Meter" means, without other qualification, a device or appliance for the measurement of electrical quantities to be used as a basis for determining charges by a public utility for furnishing or rendering electric service to a customer.

H. "Creep" means the motion of the rotor of a meter with normal operating voltage applied and the load terminals open-circuited.