"Classification petition" means a petition filed by a telephone company to classify a telephone service as subject to emerging or effective competition under Minnesota Statutes, section 237.59.
"Complainant" means a person who complains formally or informally of an alleged violation of a statute or rule within the commission's jurisdiction, a utility tariff, or a commission order.
"Expedited proceeding" means an informal proceeding described in Minnesota Statutes, section 237.61, and subject to specific procedural requirements such as verification of pleadings.
"Informal proceeding" means a proceeding that addresses and resolves issues of public policy, fact, or law without a formal contested case proceeding before the Office of Administrative Hearings.
"Intervenor" means a person permitted to intervene as a party in a proceeding under this chapter.
"Miscellaneous filing" means a request or notice that does not require determination of a utility's revenue requirement.
A miscellaneous filing includes a filing involving a new service offering; a change in a utility's rates, services, terms, or conditions of service; a change in a utility's corporate structure, assigned service area, or capital structure, when conducted separately from a general rate proceeding; filings made under the rules governing automatic adjustment of charges in chapter 7825; or any related matter.
The inclusion of a particular type of filing in this list does not require a filing that would not otherwise be required or confer jurisdiction that would not otherwise be present.
"Motion filing" means a written request for specific commission action by a party within the context of an existing commission docket. This does not include recommendations for action made in comments, or in motions made during a proceeding before an administrative law judge.
"Municipality" includes a town, statutory city, and home rule charter city.
"Participant" means a person who files comments or appears in a proceeding, other than public hearings held in contested cases and other commission proceedings conducted to receive general public comments, to present views without becoming a party.
"Party" means a person by or against whom a proceeding before the commission is commenced or a person permitted to intervene in a proceeding under this chapter. A party to a proceeding is styled a "petitioner," "complainant," "intervenor," or "respondent," according to the nature of the proceeding and the relationship of the party to the proceeding.
"Person" means a natural person, corporation, municipal corporation, public corporation, utility, governmental entity, government agency, association, partnership, receiver, joint venture, trustee at common law or statutory trust guardian, or executor.
"Petitioner" means a person who requests the commission's permission, authorization, or approval or a person who notifies the commission of a proposed change in a rate, service, or term or condition of service.
"Proceeding" means a formal or informal undertaking of the commission, in which it seeks to resolve a question or issue taken up on its own motion or presented to it in a complaint, petition, or notice of a proposed change in a rate, service, or term or condition of service.
"Proof of service" means a certificate of service stating the facts of service, including the time and manner of service and the parties served.
"Protected data" means data filed with the commission that is either:
not public data or private data on individuals under the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act, Minnesota Statutes, chapter 13; or
"Qualified complainant" means a person authorized by law to make a formal complaint to the commission.
"Respondent" means a person against whom a complaint is filed or against whom an investigation or other proceeding on commission motion is addressed.
MS s 216A.05
19 SR 116; L 2001 1Sp4 art 6 s 1; 40 SR 1329
June 14, 2016
Official Publication of the State of Minnesota
Revisor of Statutes