As used in the Low Income Water, Sewer and Solid Waste Service Assistance Act:

A. "department" means the human services department; and

B. "utility" means any individual, firm, partnership, company, district, including but not limited to solid waste district, water and sanitation district and special district, cooperative, association, public or private corporation, lessee, trustee or receiver appointed by any court, municipality and municipal utility as defined in the Municipal Code [3-3-1 NMSA 1978], incorporated county or county that may or does own, operate, lease or control any plant, property or facility for:

(1) the supply, storage, distribution or furnishing of water to or for the public;

(2) the supply and furnishing of sanitary sewer service to or for the public; or

(3) the supply and furnishing of collection, transportation, treatment or disposal of solid waste to or for the public. "Utility" does not include a public utility subject to the jurisdiction of the New Mexico public service commission [public regulation commission].

History: Laws 1993, ch. 206, § 3.

Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler. It was not enacted by the legislature and is not part of the law.

The New Mexico public service commission was a predecessor of the public utility commission, which was succeeded by the public regulation commission. Laws 1998, ch. 108, § 80 provided that references to the public utility commission be construed as references to the public regulation commission.