As used in this chapter:
(A) "Ancillary service" has the
meaning set forth in division (B) of section 4929.01 of the Revised
Code.
(B)
(A) "Billing and collection agent" has the meaning set
forth in division (I) of section
4929.01 of the Revised
Code.
(C)
(B) "Ccf" means one hundred cubic feet of natural
gas.
(D)
(C) "Commission" means the public utilities commission
of Ohio.
(E)
(D) "Commodity sales service" has the meaning set
forth in division (C) of section
4929.01 of the Revised
Code.
(F)
(E) "Competitive retail natural gas service" has the
meaning set forth in division (J) of section
4929.01 of the Revised
Code.
(G)
(F) "Complaint" means any customer/consumer contact
when such contact necessitates follow-up by or with the retail natural gas
company
supplier or governmental aggregator to resolve a point
of contention.
(H)
(G) "Consumer" has the meaning set forth in division
(E) of section 4929.01 of the Revised
Code.
(I)
(H) "Contract" means an agreement between a customer
and retail natural gas supplier or governmental aggregator that specifies the
terms and conditions for provision of a competitive retail natural gas
service.
(J)
(I) "Customer" means a person who contracts with or is
solicited by a retail natural gas supplier or governmental aggregator for the
provision of a competitive retail natural gas service.
(K)
(J)
"Deposit" means a sum of money a retail natural gas supplier or governmental
aggregator collects from a customer as a precondition for initiating
service.
(L)
(K) "Direct solicitation or
enrollment" means face-to-face solicitation or
enrollment of a customer initiated by a retail natural gas supplier or
governmental aggregator at the home of a customer or at a place other than the
normal place of business of the retail natural gas supplier or governmental
aggregator and includes door-to-door solicitations.
(M)
(L) "Disclosure
statement" means any communication between a customer and governmental
aggregator including operation and governance plans and opt-out
notices.
(N)
(M) "Distribution service" has the meaning set forth
in division (F) of section
4929.01 of the Revised Code.
(O) "Eligible customer" means a
person that is eligible to participate in a governmental aggregation in
accordance with sections 4929.26 and 4929.27 of the Revised Code and does not
include any of the following:
(1) A person that is a both a
distribution service customer and a mercantile customer on the date of
commencement of service to the governmental aggregation, or the person becomes
a distribution service customer after the service commencement date and is also
a mercantile customer.
(2) A person that is supplied with
commodity sales service pursuant to a contract with a retail natural gas
supplier that is in effect on the effective date of the ordinance or resolution
authorizing the aggregation.
(3) A person that is supplied with
commodity sales service as part of the percentage of income payment plan
program or similar or successor program adopted by the commission under Chapter
4905. or 4929. of the Revised Code.
(4) A customer that has failed to
discharge, or enter into a plan to discharge, all existing arrearages owed to
or being billed by the incumbent natural gas company.
(P)
(N) "Existing customer" means a person who has a
contract with a retail natural gas supplier or governmental aggregator for the
provision of competitive retail natural gas service.
(O)
"Gas company"
means a company that meets the definition of a gas company set forth in section
4905.03 of the Revised Code and
that also meets the definition of a public utility under section
4905.02 of the Revised
Code.
(Q)
(P) "Governmental aggregator" has the meaning set
forth in division (K)(1) of section
4929.01 of the Revised Code. For
purposes of this chapter, "governmental aggregator" specifically excludes a
municipal corporation acting exclusively under Section 4 of Article XVIII, Ohio
Constitution, as an aggregator for the provision of competitive retail natural
gas service.
(R)
(Q) "Mcf" means one thousand cubic feet of natural
gas.
(S)
(R) "Mercantile customer" has the meaning set forth in
division (L) of section
4929.01 of the Revised
Code.
(T)
(S) "Natural gas company" has the meaning set forth in
division (G) of section
4929.01 of the Revised
Code.
(U)
(T) "Opt-in governmental aggregator" means those
governmental aggregators who perform aggregation pursuant to section
4929.27 of the Revised
Code.
(V)
(U) "Opt-out governmental aggregator" means those
governmental aggregators who perform automatic governmental aggregation
pursuant to section 4929.26 of the Revised
Code.
(W)
(V) "Person" has the meaning set forth in division (H)
of section 4929.01 of the Revised
Code.
(X)
(W) "Regulated sales service customer" means a person
who has an agreement by contract and/or tariff with a natural gas company or
gas company to receive regulated sales service.
(Y)
(X) "Residential
customer'
customer" means a customer who contracts for a
competitive retail natural gas service for residential purposes.
(Z)
(Y)
"Retail natural gas service" has the meaning set forth in division (M) of
section 4929.01 of the Revised
Code.
(AA)
(Z) "Retail natural gas supplier" has the meaning set
forth in division (N) of section
4929.01 of the Revised
Code.
(BB)
(AA) "Small commercial customer" means a commercial
customer which is not a mercantile commercial customer under paragraph
(S)
(R) of
this rule.
(CC)
(BB) "Solicitation" means any communication intended
to elicit a customer's agreement to purchase or contract for a competitive
retail natural gas service.
(DD)
(CC) "Staff" means
the commission staff.
(EE)
(DD) "Toll-free"
means telephone access provided to a customer without toll charges to the
customer.
(FF) "TDD/TTY" means
telecommunication device for the deaf/text telephone yoke as defined in 47
C.F.R. 64.601 as of January 1, 2006.
Notes
Ohio Admin. Code
4901:1-29-01
Five Year Review (FYR) Dates:
7/5/2024 and
07/05/2029
Promulgated
Under: 111.15
Statutory
Authority: 4929.10,
4929.22,
4929.01
Rule
Amplifies: 4929.01,
4929.22,
4929.26,
4929.27
Prior
Effective Dates: 07/04/2002, 04/06/2006, 04/13/2007,
12/01/2014
Effective: 12/1/2014
Five Year
Review (FYR) Dates: 07/28/2014 and
07/28/2019
Promulgated
Under: 111.15
Statutory Authority: 4929.10, 4929.22,
4929.01
Rule Amplifies: 4929.01, 4929.22, 4929.26,
4929.27
Prior Effective Dates: 7/4/02, 4/6/06,
4/13/07
