2012 Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 40 Public Utilities and Carriers
40-491 Definitions

40-491 Definitions

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:

1 "Customer" means the person in whose name a utility service is provided.

2. "Person" means an individual, partnership, firm, association or corporation.

3. "Reconnection" means the restoration of utility service to a customer or other person after service has been legally disconnected by the utility.

4. "Tampering" means if the utility service is measured or registered by a meter and any of the following actions are taken prior to or at the point at which the meter registers or measures the utility service or if the utility service is not measured or registered by a meter if any of the following action is committed against property owned or operated by the utility for transmission of utility service:

(a) Connecting any wire, conduit or device to any service or transmission line owned by a utility.

(b) Defacing, puncturing, removing, reversing or altering any meter or any connections to secure unauthorized or unmeasured utility service.

(c) Preventing any meter from properly measuring or registering.

(d) Knowingly taking, receiving, using or converting to personal use or the use of another any utility service which has not been measured or authorized.

(e) Diverting or changing the intended course or path of the utility service without the authorization or consent of the utility.

(f) Causing, procuring, permitting, aiding or abetting any person to do any of the acts in subdivisions (a) through (f).

5. "Utility" means any public service corporation, licensed cable television system, telephone line or telegraph line corporation or person engaged in the generation, transmission or delivery of electricity, gas, telephone, cable television, telegraph or water service, including this state or any political subdivision or agency of this state.

6. "Utility service" means the provision of services or commodities by the utility for compensation.