The following terms, when used in these Rules and Regulations of Service shall, unless otherwise indicated, have the meanings given below:
ANSI – The American National Standards Institute is a private, non-profit organization (501©3) that administers and coordinates the U.S. voluntary standardization and conformity assessment system.
Applicant — An individual, partnership, association, firm, public or private corporation, government agency, or public or private entity requesting electric service from TCEC.
Association- The act of a number of persons who unite or join together for some special purpose or business. The union of a company of persons for the transaction of designated affairs, or the attainment of some common object. An unincorporated society; a body of persons united and acting together without a charter, but upon the methods and forms used by incorporated bodies for the prosecution of some common enterprise.
Billing Month — An interval of approximately thirty days between successive meter reading dates.
Commission — May refer to Oklahoma Corporation Commission, Kansas State Corporation Commission, Public Utility Commission of Texas, Colorado Public Utilities Commission or New Mexico Public Regulation Commission, depending on location.
Complaint — An expression of dissatisfaction toward TCEC regarding billing, service procedure or employee conduct which requests or requires some remedial or corrective action by TCEC. Complaints may be made by the Member or other interested party. A complaint may be made orally or in writing.
Corporation – An artificial person or legal entity created by or under the authority of the laws of a state or nation, composed, in some rare instances, of a single person and his successors, being the incumbents of a particular office, but ordinarily consisting of an association of numerous individuals, who subsist as a body politic under a special denomination, which is regarded In law as having a personality and existence distinct from that of its several members, and which is, by the same authority, vested with the capacity of continuous succession, irrespective of changes in its membership, either in perpetuity or for a limited term of years, and of acting as a unit or single individual in matters relating to the common purpose of the association, within the scope of the powers and authorities conferred upon such bodies by law
Customer — Member or non-Member served by TCEC.
Delinquent — see Past Due
Electric Plant — Facilities and equipment owned and/or operated by TCEC, including but not limited to generating stations, substations, transformers, towers, poles, conductors, transportation equipment, conduits, meters, motors, real estate and buildings.
Electricity — Electric power and/or energy produced, transmitted, distributed, or provided by TCEC.
Electric Service — The maintenance by TCEC of an established voltage and frequency at the point of common coupling to the Member whether or not any electric power is actually used by the Member.
Extension — Any branch from or continuation of the existing transmission, distribution or service facilities of TCEC to the point of common coupling, including increases in capacity of existing facilities, or the changing of any line to meet the requirements of the Member to include all transformers, service connections, meters, etc.
Facility Extension Agreement — A written agreement or contract between TCEC and the Member to establish conditions of electric service.
Firm - Company that involves itself in the business of law. Lawyers that work together under a specific firm name, may only focus on certain kinds of law, deal with various general law cases. Litigation secretaries, data entry specialists, and case file managers are necessary members of such a firm.
General Service – Services which are not residences such as domestic water wells, livestock water wells, small agriculture, small businesses, etc.
Government Agency - A government body formed under the terms of a statute to ensure compliance with the act’s provisions.
Heat Index — A measurement of the air temperature in relation to the relative humidity used as an indicator of the perceived temperature.
Idle Service — When a service is inactive and no monthly charge has been billed for at least twenty-four (24) months, it shall be considered idle.
IEEE - A non-profit professional organization dedicated to the advancement of electricity-related technology. A leader in standard-making, it publishes the National Electrical Safety Code. IEEE was formerly used as an acronym for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers before becoming the group’s formal name during the 2000s because technical fields had transcended traditional definitions and boundaries (See National Electrical Safety Code).
Individual - As a noun, individual denotes a single person as distinguished from a group or class, and also, very commonly, a private or natural person as distinguished from a partnership, corporation, or association; but it is said that this restrictive signification is not necessarily inherent in the word, and that it may, in proper cases, include artificial persons.
As an adjective, individual means pertaining or belonging to, or characteristic of, one single person, either in opposition to a firm, association, or corporation, or considered in his relation thereto.
Installation of the Member — All wires, cut-outs, switches, appliances and apparatus of every kind and nature used in connection with or forming a part of any installation for utilizing electricity for any purpose ordinarily located on the Member's side of point of common coupling, whether such installation is owned outright by the Member or used by the Member under lease or otherwise.
Legal Holiday — Days declared to be legal holidays by the Chief Executive of the states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and/or Texas and those days observed by TCEC.
Limited Liability Company – It combines corporation limited personal liability with partnership or sole proprietorship single taxation. Each shareholder files own separate tax return. Profits and tax benefits are split any way the stockholder and shareholder entities choose. LLC tax return is informational for the taxation authorities. Also refer to limited company.
Member/Customer — Referred to as the Member in these Rules and Regulations of Service. Any individual, partnership, association, firm, public, or private corporation, governmental agency, or public or private entity that has complied with the requirements for membership or elected to be a non-member.
Meter — Any metering equipment, including auxiliary devices, if any, constituting the complete installation required to measure the power and energy supplied to any the Member.
Mobile Home — A mobile living unit designed and equipped for year-round occupancy that has the wheels removed and is located at a permanent location.
Mobile Home Lot — A defined parcel of land, in a Mobile Home Park which is adequate, suitable and restricted to the location of a single Mobile Home. This parcel may be purchased, rented, or leased by owner of Mobile Home located thereon for occupancy of not less than thirty (30) days.
Mobile Home Park — A parcel or tract of land, which has been developed to provide at any time electric utility and other necessary services to permanent and semi-permanent Mobile Homes located in designated individual lots.
National Electrical Code (NEC) — The United States standard for safe installation of internal electrical wiring and equipment, part of the National Fire Code series published by the National Fire Protection Association. A publication title.
National Electrical Safety Code (NESC) — Developed by IEEE, it sets ground rules for worker safety during the installation, operation, and maintenance of electric and telecommunication lines and associated equipment. A publication title, italicize. Electric cooperatives that are federal Rural Utilities Service borrowers must comply with all sections of the code. (See IEEE.)
Notice — Unless otherwise specified, a written notification delivered personally or mailed by one party to the other at such other party's last known address. Address shall be defined as the physical address, P.O. Box, email address or phone for text message.
Partnership - A voluntary contract between two or more competent persons to place their money, effects, labor, and skill, or some or all of them, in lawful commerce or business, with the understanding that there shall be a proportional sharing of the profits and losses between them.
Past Due — Any amount that is considered late by TCEC.
Point of Common Coupling — The point of common coupling of electric service shall be the point at which the Member connects to the wires and/or apparatus of TCEC.
Premises — Any piece of land, real estate, facility, building, or other structure or portion thereof where electric service is available to the Member.
Tariff — Schedule of charges for electric service containing the tariff identification or code (alpha and/or numeric), class of service, applicability, territory, tariff, minimum charge, and conditions under which service is to be furnished as approved by the appropriate Commission and/or the Board of Trustees, as applicable.
Residence — Any residential dwelling mounted on a foundation containing complete kitchen facilities for each dwelling unit with normal occupancy on a permanent year-round basis. Not included in the term permanent Residence are motels, rooming houses, weekend cabins, trailer houses and mobile homes not on permanent foundations. However, trailer houses and Mobile Homes situated in Mobile Home Parks or on individual lots are considered permanent Residences.
Service Connection — Wires from TCEC's distribution system to the Member's service entrance.
Service Entrance — The terminal of the Member's wiring to which TCEC connects its electric service.
Subdivision — Any land, wherever located, whether improved or unimproved, contiguous or not, which is divided into lots or proposed to be divided for the purpose of disposition pursuant to a common promotional scheme or plan of advertising for disposition.
Temporary Service — Service to loads such as well drilling loads, construction power loads, carnivals, street decorations for celebrations and to other similar loads of short duration. Any service of less than 12 months shall be considered temporary service.
