Sec.16-11-50. Definitions

As used in sections 16-11-50 to 16-11-97, inclusive:

(1) "Commission" means the public utilities commission of the state of Connecticut;

(2) "Company" or "utility" includes every person, partnership, corporation, company, association, joint stock association, or lessee thereof, owning, maintaining, operating, managing or controlling any pond, lake, reservoir or distributing plant employed for the purpose of supplying water for general domestic use in any town, city or borough, or portion thereof, within this state;

(3) "Class 1 utilities" means water companies having annual revenues of twenty thousand dollars or more;

(4) "Class 2 utilities" means water companies having annual revenues of less than twenty thousand dollars;

(5) "Customer" means any person, firm, corporation, company, association, governmental unit, lessee who by the terms of a written lease is responsible for the water bill, or owner of property furnished water service by a water company.

(6) "Meter" means any device for measuring the quantity of water used as a basis for determining charges for water service to a customer;

(7) "Premises" shall include but is not restricted to the following:

(A) A building or combination of buildings owned or leased by one customer, in one common enclosure, occupied by one family as a residence or one corporation or firm as a place of business, or

(B) each unit of a multiple house or building separated by a solid vertical partition wall occupied by one family as a residence or one firm as a place of business, or

(C) a building owned or leased by one customer and having a number of apartments, offices or lofts which are rented to tenants using in common one hall and one or more means of entrance, or

(D) a building two or more stories high under one roof owned or leased by one customer and having an individual entrance for the ground floor occupants and one for the occupants of the upper floors, or

(E) a combination of buildings owned by one customer, in one common enclosure, none of the individual buildings of which is adapted to separate ownership, or

(F) a public building, or

(G) a single plot, used as a park or recreational area;

(8) "Property" means all facilities owned and operated by a water company;

(9) "Main" means a water pipe, owned, operated and maintained by a company, which is used for the purpose of transmission or distribution of water but is not a water service pipe;

(10) "Service pipe" means the pipe that runs between the main and the customer's place of consumption.

(Effective April 12, 1978)