Puc 502.01 "Commission" means the New Hampshire public utilities commission.
Source. (See Revision Note # 1 and Revision Note #2 at chapter heading for Puc 500) #13794, eff 10-25-23
Puc 502.02 “Department” means the New Hampshire department of energy.
Source. (See Revision Note # 1 and Revision Note #2 at chapter heading for Puc 500) #13794, eff 10-25-23
Puc 502.03 "Gas" means any manufactured or natural gas or any combination thereof.
Source. (See Revision Note # 1 and Revision Note #2 at chapter heading for Puc 500) #13794, eff 10-25-23
Puc 502.04 “Jurisdictional LPG system" means:
(1) A system involving a single source which serves 10 or more customers; or
(2) A system where more than one customer is located in a public place.
Source. (See Revision Note # 1 and Revision Note #2 at chapter heading for Puc 500) #13794, eff 10-25-23
Puc 502.05 “Landfill” means a facility which collects and disposes of waste by landfilling methods. The term includes facilities that collect and store waste indefinitely. The term does not include incinerators, land application sites, surface impoundments and injection wells.
Source. (See Revision Note # 1 and Revision Note #2 at chapter heading for Puc 500) #13794, eff 10-25-23
Puc 502.06 “Landfill gas” means any flammable consisting primarily of methane and carbon dioxide and produced by aerobic and anaerobic decomposition of organic solid waste in a landfill.
Source. (See Revision Note # 1 and Revision Note #2 at chapter heading for Puc 500) #13794, eff 10-25-23
Puc 502.07 "Landfill gas operator" means a person who engages in the transportation of landfill gas off site from the premises in which it was gathered except where the landfill gas is transferred in a pipeline that operates at less than atmospheric pressure from the premises where it was gathered to the premises where it is used and where both premises are controlled by the same entity.
Source. (See Revision Note # 1 and Revision Note #2 at chapter heading for Puc 500) #13794, eff 10-25-23
Puc 502.08 "LPG operator" means a person who engages in the transportation of propane gas. An LPG operator includes but is not limited to an individual or supplier operating a jurisdictional LPG system in a housing project, apartment complex, condominium, manufactured home park, shopping center or other system except those systems operated in support of a utility.
Source. (See Revision Note # 1 and Revision Note #2 at chapter heading for Puc 500) #13794, eff 10-25-23
Puc 502.09 "Master meter system" means any underground gas pipeline system operated by a residential or commercial customer of a New Hampshire gas utility and utilized for the distribution of gas to ultimate consumers within, but not limited to, a definable area, such as a manufactured housing park, a housing project or an apartment complex, where the operator purchases metered gas from a public utility for resale through the operator's distribution system, which is beyond the control of the utility, and where the ultimate consumers served by the operator's distribution system purchase the gas directly through a meter or by other means, such as through rents.
Source. (See Revision Note # 1 and Revision Note #2 at chapter heading for Puc 500) #13794, eff 10-25-23
Puc 502.10 "Meter" means a device which measures gas flow and which may include a gas diaphragm type, a rotary positive displacement type, an inferential turbine type or an ultrasonic type.
Source. (See Revision Note # 1 and Revision Note #2 at chapter heading for Puc 500) #13794, eff 10-25-23
Puc 502.11 "Person" means an individual, firm, joint venture, partnership, corporation, association, state, cooperative association, or joint stock association, and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee, or personal representative thereof but shall not include a municipality operating a gas system pursuant to RSA 38.
Source. (See Revision Note # 1 and Revision Note #2 at chapter heading for Puc 500) #13794, eff 10-25-23
Puc 502.12 "Public place" means a place which is generally open to all persons in a community, such as churches, schools, and commercial buildings, as well as any publicly owned rights-of-way or property.
Source. (See Revision Note # 1 and Revision Note #2 at chapter heading for Puc 500) #13794, eff 10-25-23
Puc 502.13 "Utility" means any "public utility" as defined in RSA 362:2 engaged in the manufacture, distribution, sale, transmission or transportation of gas in the state, as limited in RSA 362:4-b with respect to liquefied petroleum gas.
Source. (See Revision Note # 1 and Revision Note #2 at chapter heading for Puc 500) #13794, eff 10-25-23