1997 Minnesota Statutes

     216B.38 Definitions. 

    Subdivision 1.  MS 1974 Renumbered subd 1a 

    Subdivision 1.    Scope.  For the purpose of sections 
 216B.37 to 216B.44 only, the following definitions shall apply. 

    Subd. 1a.    Person.  "Person" means a natural person, a 
 partnership, private corporation, a public corporation, a 
 municipality, an association, a cooperative whether incorporated 
 or not, a joint stock association, a business trust, any 
 political subdivision or agency, or two or more persons having 
 joint or common interest. 

    Subd. 2.    Customer.  "Customer" means a person 
 contracting for or purchasing electric service at retail from an 
 electric utility. 

    Subd. 3.    Electric service.  "Electric service" means 
 electric service furnished to a customer at retail for ultimate 
 consumption, but does not include wholesale electric energy 
 furnished by an electric utility to another electric utility for 
 resale. 

    Subd. 4.    Electric line.  "Electric line" means lines 
 for conducting electric energy at a design voltage of 25,000 
 volts phase to phase or less used for distributing electric 
 energy directly to customers at retail. 

    Subd. 5.    Electric utility.  "Electric utility" means 
 persons, their lessees, trustees, and receivers, separately or 
 jointly, now or hereafter operating, maintaining or controlling 
 in Minnesota equipment or facilities for providing electric 
 service at retail and which fall within the definition of 
 "public utility" in section 216B.02, subdivision 4, and includes 
 facilities owned by a municipality or by a cooperative electric 
 association. 

    Subd. 6.    Assigned service area.  "Assigned service 
 area" means the geographical area in which the boundaries are 
 established as provided in section 216B.39. 

    Subd. 7.    Municipality.  "Municipality" means any 
 city, however organized. 

    HIST: 1974 c 429 s 38; 1978 c 795 s 6