New Mexico Administrative Code

Base period, linkage data and future test year period data filed to support the rate application must be provided in fully functional electronic format so that amounts in schedules and supporting work papers required by this rule and the commission's data rules can be traced with…

The rate application shall include: A. a base period; B. an adjusted base period; C. a future test year period and; D. verifiable information for the linkage data to allow commission staff and intervenors to assess the validity of the information contained in the future test year…

The rate application shall present operating results and financial data that are prepared in the normal course of business for the three years preceding the base period.

The required data shall be accompanied by testimony and exhibits explaining and justifying quantities, assumptions, expectations, activity changes, etc. and verifying that the amounts used to support the future test year period are the utility's most recently available data.

The base period, adjusted base period and future test year period, including rate base, shall be presented in conformity with the applicable USOA accounts prescribed by commission rule.

In addition to the requirements of Section 15 of this rule, base period, adjusted base period, linkage data and future test year period results and expectations shall be presented as set forth in this section. If budget estimates are used, the results and expectations shall be pr…

The future test year period estimates shall be fully explained and linked to the historic base period and any linkage data. A. For any material changes between base period and future test year period, cost drivers shall be separately identified, explained and justified as well as…

The future test year period may be established by utilizing adjustments, forecasts, budgets or other reasonable methods; provided, however, that all future test year values, whether at the USOA account or sub-account level or at the cost center level, shall be fully described, ju…

A. During the rate proceeding, the commission shall consider the utility's proposed revisions, if any, to the originally filed future test year period. The utility shall timely notify the commission, staff and intervenors of any proposed revisions due to errors, changes in law or…

The data requirements specified in this rule shall apply to the investor-owned utilities doing business in New Mexico that tender a new rate schedule or rate schedule based on a future test year period where the future test year period is not the 12 consecutive months following t…

Sections 8-8-4, 8-8-15, 62-3-1 through 62-3-3, 62-6-4 A, 62-6-4.3, 62-6-14, 62-6-16, 62-6-17, 62-6-26, 62-6-26.1, 62-6-28, 62-8-1, 62-8-6, 62-8-7, 62-9-1 B, 62-9-2 B, 62-13-13.2, 62-16-6, and 62-17-6 NMSA 1978.

Permanent.

February 14, 2013, unless a later date is cited at the end of a section.

The purpose of 17.1.3 NMAC is to define and specify the different or additional minimum data requirements to be filed in support for a tendered new rate schedule or rate schedule based on a future test year period which will supersede, supplement, or otherwise change the provisio…

In addition to the definitions in 17.1.2 NMAC, 17.9.530 NMAC, 17.10.630 NMAC, 17.12.1 NMAC, 17.12.730 NMAC, 17.12.780 NMAC, 17.13.1 NMAC, 17.13.930 NMAC and 17.13.980 NMAC, as used in this rule: A. "adjusted base period" means a utility's base period data that includes fully expl…

The minimum data standard requirements contained in the schedules in 17.9.530 NMAC, 17.10.630 NMAC, 17.12.730 NMAC and 17.13.930 NMAC shall be incorporated into any rate case application made under this rule, except: A. for 17.9.530 NMAC schedules P-2(f), P-3(f), P-4(f), P-5(c)(i…

The failure of the utility to fulfill the data requirements specified in this rule shall constitute sufficient cause for the commission to reject the utility's filing pursuant to 17.1.210 NMAC.

New Mexico Public Service Commission [New Mexico Public Regulation Commission].

Except for the Gross Receipts and Compensating Tax and local sales taxes, the filed rates and, consequently, the billings of public utilities operating in the State of New Mexico as of April 10, 1968 [the date of General Order No. 25, codified by NMPSC Rule 330] [17.1.330 NMAC] a…

No tax adjustment clause inconsistent with that allowed by NMPSC Rule 330 [17.1.330 NMAC] may be used by any public utility in any rate schedule.

NMPSC Rule 330 [17.1.330 NMAC] shall have no application to special contract rate schedules, filed or to be filed.

Any tariff schedules on file and effective with the Commission on April 10, 1968 [the date of General Order No. 25, codified by NMPSC Rule 330] [17.1.330 NMAC], which referred to the New Mexico Emergency School Tax Act, shall be construed to refer to the Gross Receipts and Compen…

NMPSC Case No. 2086, order dated June 30, 1988, unless otherwise noted. Formerly First Revised General Order No. 25, superseded for purposes of rule reorganization and codification. Readopted without revision in NMPSC Case No. 2360, Order dated August 17, 1992.

A. Tax Adjustment Clause [17.1.330.9 NMAC] B. Surcharge or Inclusion in Billings [17.1.330.10 NMAC] C. Other Tax Adjustment Clause Not Permitted [17.1.330.11 NMAC] D. Special Contract Rate Schedules Exception [17.1.330.12 NMAC] E. Tariff Schedules on File [17.1.330.13 NMAC]

Any public utility electing to incorporate a tax adjustment clause in any rate schedule shall use the following language. Billings under this schedule may be increased by an amount equal to the sum of the taxes payable under the Gross Receipts and Compensating Tax Act and of all …

New Mexico Public Regulation Commission.

A. A dealer should offer reasonable budget billing plans to its residential customers. The offer of budget billing plans shall not be unreasonably withheld. B. Budget billing plans shall be binding contracts under New Mexico law and shall be in writing. The pricing and time perio…

A. A dealer shall make a reasonable effort to enter into a payment agreement with a residential customer with a delinquent or past due account. B. Payment agreements shall be binding contracts under New Mexico law and shall be in writing. The pricing and time period language shal…

A. Bills for propane goods, services and equipment shall include: (1) the number of gallons metered; (2) the date the bill is due; (3) the amount due for, and explanation of, special services and fees including but not limited to, hazardous materials and environmental fuel surcha…

A dealer shall display a current copy of the IINMPC document in English and Spanish at all of its retail locations and on its website if applicable, and shall make this information available to the general public upon request. The document shall contain the telephone number for f…

A dealer shall keep for at least ninety (90) days and provide public access to, its current charges for service, including the current price of propane and pricing categories used to establish customer rate variations. This information shall be available to customers and potentia…

A dealer shall report the information required by Section 17.10.2.14 NMAC within ten (10) business days upon commission request.

When a customer places a valid order for propane, the dealer shall honor the quoted price for the requested delivery, even if the actual delivery is at some other date for reasons not caused by the customer.

Prior to delivery, a dealer shall notify customers of the minimum quantity of propane required for their tank size, and of the charges for that minimal fill and for partial fills below the minimal amount. A dealer shall use reasonable efforts to help a customer maintain an adequa…

A. Upon request, a dealer shall furnish to the customer copies of the customer's records for the prior twelve months. A dealer may charge a reasonable fee for copying these records. B. A dealer shall furnish copies of a customer's records relevant to a matter in dispute to anyone…

A. A dealer shall fully and promptly investigate and respond to all oral and written complaints made directly to the dealer by customers or prospective customers. The dealer shall make a good faith attempt to resolve the complaint and shall promptly notify the customer of its pro…

A. This rule applies to propane dealers operating within New Mexico subject to the jurisdiction of the New Mexico public regulation commission. B. Nothing in this rule shall supersede a federal or New Mexico law, rule, code or regulation designed to protect customer safety or pub…

Sections 8-8-4, 8-8-4.1 and 8-8-15 NMSA 1978.

Permanent.

December 15, 2010; unless a later date is cited at the end of a section.

The purpose of this rule is to establish a uniform set of standards defining the rights and responsibilities of propane customers and dealers. The purpose of this rule is also to ensure that dealers provide customers with transparent, accurate and timely information. This rule es…