HF 1367

as introduced - 84th Legislature (2005 - 2006) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

A bill for an act
relating to landlord and tenant; regulating
responsibility for water utility charges; amending
Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 325E.025, subdivision
1.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 325E.025,
subdivision 1, is amended to read:

Subdivision 1.

Definitions.

For purposes of this
section, "utility" means persons, corporations, or other legal
entities, their lessees, trustees, and receivers, now or
hereafter operating, maintaining, or controlling in this state
equipment or facilities for furnishing at retail natural,
manufactured, or mixed gas or electric service to or for the
public or engaged in its production and retail sale. The term
"utility" includes municipalities and cooperative electric
associations, organized under the provisions of chapter 308A,
producing or furnishing natural, manufactured, or mixed gas or
electric service. This section is not applicable to the sale of
natural, manufactured, or mixed gas or electricity by a public
utility to another public utility for resale. new text begin For purposes of
this section, "utility" also includes a municipality or other
entity providing a connected and metered retail water supply to
a property.
new text end

"Customer" means any person, firm, association, or
corporation, or any agency of the federal, state, or local
government being supplied with service by a utility.