As used in this chapter:
(A)
"Administrative
law judge" (ALJ) has the same meaning attributed to attorney examiner; the
terms are interchangeable throughout these and other commission rules and both
terms refer to the positions authorized under section
4901.18 of the Revised
Code.
(A)(B) "Business day"
means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.
(B)(C)
"Commission" means the public utilities commission.
(C)(D) "Docketing
information system" means the commission's system for electronically storing
documents filed in a case. The internet address of the docketing information
system is
http://dis.puc.state.oh.us.
(D)(E)
"Electric utility" means an electric light company as defined in section
4905.03 of the Revised Code and
an electric services company as defined in section
4928.01 of the Revised
Code.
(E)(F) "Electronic filing"
(e-filing) means the submission of digitized electronic files to the
commission's docketing information system.
(F)(G) "Electronic mail"
(e-mail
email)
means the exchange of digital messages across the internet or other computer
network.
(G)(H) "Emergency rate
proceeding" means any case involving an application for an emergency rate
adjustment filed under section
4909.16 of the Revised
Code.
(H)(I) "Facsimile
transmission" (fax) means the transmission of a source document by a facsimile
machine or other electronic device that encodes a document into signals and
transmits and reconstructs the signals to print a duplicate of the source
document at the commission's docketing division or a party's
location.
(I)(J) "Gas utility" means
a gas or natural gas company as defined in section
4905.03 of the Revised
Code.
(J)(K) "General rate
proceeding" means any case involving an application for an increase in rates
filed under section 4909.18 of the Revised Code, a
complaint or petition filed under section
4909.34 or
4909.35 of the Revised Code, or
an investigation into the reasonableness of a public utility's rates initiated
by the commission under section
4905.26 of the Revised
Code.
(K)(L) "Long-term forecast
report" has the meaning set forth in section
4935.04 of the Revised Code.
(L) "Motor carrier proceeding" means
any proceeding involving the regulation of one or more motor transportation
companies or private motor carriers.
(M) "Motor transportation company"
has the meaning set forth in section 4921.02 of the Revised
Code.
(N)(M) "Person" means a
person, firm, corporation, unincorporated association, government agency, the
United States, the state of Ohio or one of its political subdivisions, or any
other legally cognizable entity including any entity defined as a "person" in
division (A) of section
4906.01 of the Revised
Code.
(O)(N) "Presiding hearing
officer" means the commissioner or attorney
examiner
ALJ presiding at a public
hearing or prehearing conference.
(P)(O) "Private motor
carrier" has the meaning set forth in section
4923.02 of the Revised
Code.
(Q)(P) "Public utility"
has the meaning set forth in section
4905.02 of the Revised
Code.
(R)(Q) "Purchased gas
adjustment proceeding" means any proceeding heard under section
4905.302 of the Revised Code and
rule
4901:1-14-08 of the
Administrative Code.
(S)(R) "Railroad" has the
meaning set forth in section
4907.02 of the Revised
Code.
(T)(S) "Reporting person"
means any person required to file
filing a long-term forecast report under section
4935.04 of the Revised
Code.
