New Mexico § 70-3-12 - Definitions

§ 70-3-12. Definitions

As used in the Pipeline Safety Act: A. “ person ” means an individual, firm, joint venture, partnership, corporation, association,

state, municipality, political subdivision, cooperative association, joint stock association

or any combination thereof and includes any receiver, trustee, assignee or personal

representative thereof; B. “ commission ” means the public regulation commission; C. “ gas ” means natural gas, flammable gas or gas that is toxic or corrosive; D. “ oil ” means crude oil and liquid hydrocarbons and manufactured products derived from either; E. “ transportation of gas ” means the gathering, transmission or distribution of gas by pipeline or its storage,

except that it shall not include the gathering of gas in those rural locations that

lie outside the limits of any municipality or unincorporated city, town or village

or any residential or commercial area such as a subdivision, a business or shopping

center, a community development or any similar populated area that the commission

may define by order as a nonrural area; F. “ transportation of oil ” means the transmission of oil by pipeline, except pipelines operated exclusively

for the gathering of oil in any field or area or pipelines constituting a part of

any tank farm, plant facilities of any processing plant, gasoline plant, refinery,

carbon-black plant, recycling system or similar operations; G. “ gas pipeline facilities ” means new and existing pipeline rights of way and any equipment, facility or structure

used in the transportation of gas or the treatment of gas during the course of transportation; H. “ oil pipeline facilities ” means new and existing pipeline rights of way and any equipment, facility or structure

used in the transportation of oil; I. “ intrastate pipeline facilities ” means oil pipeline facilities or gas pipeline facilities within the state that are

not gas pipeline facilities subject to the jurisdiction of the federal energy regulatory

commission pursuant to the federal Natural Gas Act 1 or oil pipeline facilities used in the transportation of oil in interstate or foreign

commerce, except that it shall include pipeline facilities within the state that transport

gas from an interstate gas pipeline to a direct sales customer within the state purchasing

gas for its own consumption; J. “ distribution main ” means a pipeline other than a gathering or transmission line that serves as a common

source of supply for more than one service line; K. “ master meter ” means a pipeline system for distributing gas within, but not limited to, a definable

area, such as a mobile home park, housing project or apartment complex, where the

operator purchases metered gas from an outside source for resale through a gas distribution

pipeline system. The master meter system supplies the ultimate consumer who either purchases the

gas directly through a meter or by other means such as by rents, as more fully set

forth in federal laws and regulations; and L. “ service line ” means a pipeline that transports gas from a common source of supply, such as a distribution

main, to: (1) a customer meter or the connection to a customer's piping, whichever is further

downstream; or (2) the connection to a customer's piping if there is no customer meter. A “ customer meter ” is the meter that measures the transfer of gas from an operator to a consumer. 1

15 U.S.C.A. § 717 et seq.