1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to landlord and tenant; regulating
1.3 	responsibility for water utility charges; amending
1.4 	Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 325E.025, subdivision
1.5 	1.
1.6 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.7 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 325E.025,
1.8 	subdivision 1, is amended to read:
1.9 		Subdivision 1.Definitions.  For purposes of this
1.10 	section, "utility" means persons, corporations, or other legal
1.11 	entities, their lessees, trustees, and receivers, now or
1.12 	hereafter operating, maintaining, or controlling in this state
1.13 	equipment or facilities for furnishing at retail natural,
1.14 	manufactured, or mixed gas or electric service to or for the
1.15 	public or engaged in its production and retail sale.  The term
1.16 	"utility" includes municipalities and cooperative electric
1.17 	associations, organized under the provisions of chapter 308A,
1.18 	producing or furnishing natural, manufactured, or mixed gas or
1.19 	electric service.  This section is not applicable to the sale of
1.20 	natural, manufactured, or mixed gas or electricity by a public
1.21 	utility to another public utility for resale. For purposes of
1.22 	this section, "utility" also includes a municipality or other
1.23 	entity providing a connected and metered retail water supply to
1.24 	a property.
1.25 	"Customer" means any person, firm, association, or
2.1 	corporation, or any agency of the federal, state, or local
2.2 	government being supplied with service by a utility.