{"operation":"document","citation":"4 CCR 723-4 Rule 4803","title":"Exemption Requirements","source_type":"regulation","agency":"Colorado Public Utilities Commission","status":"current","official":true,"published_on":null,"effective_on":null,"summary":"(a) In order to retain its exemption from rate regulation, a MMO shall do the following. (I) As part of its billing for utility service, the MMO shall charge its end-users only the actual cost billed to the MMO by the serving utility. The MMO shall not charge end-users for any other costs (such as, ","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/co-ccr-4-723-4-4803.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/co-ccr-4-723-4-4803.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/co-ccr-4-723-4-4803","source_url":"https://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/DisplayRule.do?action=ruleinfo&ruleId=2260&deptID=18&agencyID=96&deptName=Department%20of%20Regulatory%20Agencies&agencyName=Public%20Utilities%20Commission&seriesNum=4%20CCR%20723-4","body":"(a) In order to retain its exemption from rate regulation, a MMO shall do the\nfollowing.\n\n(I) As part of its billing for utility service, the MMO shall charge its end-users\nonly the actual cost billed to the MMO by the serving utility. The MMO\nshall not charge end-users for any other costs (such as, without limitation,\nthe costs of construction, maintenance, financing, administration,\nmetering, or billing for the equipment and facilities owned by the MMO) in\naddition to the actual costs billed to the MMO by the serving utility.\n(II) If the MMO bills its end-users separately for service, the sum of such\nbillings shall not exceed the amount billed to the MMO by the serving\nutility.\n(III) If the MMO bills its end-users separately for service, the MMO shall pass\non to its end-users all refunds the MMO receives from the serving utility or\notherwise.\n(IV) The MMO shall establish procedures for giving notice of a refund to those\nwho are not current end-users but who were end-users during the period\nfor which the refund is paid.\n(V) A master meter operator shall retain, for a period of not less than three\nyears, all records of original utility billings made to the master meter\noperator and all records of billings and refunds made by the master meter\noperator to its end-users, including certification of mailing, when\napplicable.\n(b) In order to retain its exemption from rate regulation, a MMO shall not resell the\nservices provided by a serving utility to the MMO for profit. Resale of services\nprovided by a serving utility to a MMO for profit is a basis for revocation of an\nexemption from rate regulation.\n(c) A MMO may check-meter tenants, lessees, or other persons to whom the gas\nultimately is distributed but may do so only if the following conditions are met:\n(I) the check-meter is used solely for the purpose of determining a basis for\nthe MMO to allocate the costs of the serving utility; and\n(II) the MMO does not receive more than the actual amount billed to the MMO\nby the serving utility from the MMO’s customers.","truncated":false,"body_characters":2042}