§ 717a. — Definitions.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 15USC717a]
TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
CHAPTER 15B--NATURAL GAS
Sec. 717a. Definitions
When used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires--
(1) ``Person'' includes an individual or a corporation.
(2) ``Corporation'' includes any corporation, joint-stock
company, partnership, association, business trust, organized group
of persons, whether incorporated or not, receiver or receivers,
trustee or trustees of any of the foregoing, but shall not include
municipalities as hereinafter defined.
(3) ``Municipality'' means a city, county, or other political
subdivision or agency of a State.
(4) ``State'' means a State admitted to the Union, the District
of Columbia, and any organized Territory of the United States.
(5) ``Natural gas'' means either natural gas unmixed, or any
mixture of natural and artificial gas.
(6) ``Natural-gas company'' means a person engaged in the
transportation of natural gas in interstate commerce, or the sale in
interstate commerce of such gas for resale.
(7) ``Interstate commerce'' means commerce between any point in
a State and any point outside thereof, or between points within the
same State but through any place outside thereof, but only insofar
as such commerce takes place within the United States.
(8) ``State commission'' means the regulatory body of the State
or municipality having jurisdiction to regulate rates and charges
for the sale of natural gas to consumers within the State or
municipality.
(9) ``Commission'' and ``Commissioner'' means the Federal Power
Commission, and a member thereof, respectively.
(10) ``Vehicular natural gas'' means natural gas that is
ultimately used as a fuel in a self-propelled vehicle.
(June 21, 1938, ch. 556, Sec. 2, 52 Stat. 821; Pub. L. 102-486, title
IV, Sec. 404(a)(2), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2879.)
Amendments
1992--Par. (10). Pub. L. 102-486 added par. (10).
Transfer of Functions
Federal Power Commission terminated and functions, personnel,
property, funds, etc., transferred to Secretary of Energy (except for
certain functions transferred to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission)
by sections 7151(b), 7171(a), 7172(a)(1), 7291, and 7293 of Title 42,
The Public Health and Welfare.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 717y, 3431 of this title;
title 43 section 1862.
