New Mexico Administrative Code

The purpose of NMPSC Rule 750 [17.12.750 NMAC] is to promote good public utility practices, to encourage efficiency and economy, and to establish minimum standards to be observed in the design, construction, and operation of waterworks facilities by water utilities operating unde…

A. General Provisions: (1) Purpose [17.12.750.6 NMAC] (2) Applicability [17.12.750.2 NMAC] (3) Variances [17.12.750.2 NMAC] B. Records and Reports: [17.12.750.9 NMAC] (1) System Maps (2) Construction Dates (3) Meter Records (4) Other Records (5) Location of Records (6) Reports to…

A. System Maps: Each utility shall maintain on file drawings or maps of the water system. Such maps or drawings shall be clear and legible. Unless the Commission authorizes otherwise these records shall show the following: (1) location of all sources of supply, water treatment pl…

New Mexico Public Public Regulation Commission.

A. For the convenience of the utilities the customer service rules and regulations herein are set forth in the appropriate format. (See 17.12.760.10 NMAC.pdf) B. But for the utility's ability to disconnect residential service due to an emergency, safety concerns, or by customer r…

17.12.760 NMAC shall apply to any water utility operating within the state of New Mexico under the jurisdiction of the new mexico public regulation commission.

Section 8-8-15 NMSA 1978; Sections 62-3-1 NMSA 1978, 62-3-3 NMSA 1978, 62-3-4 NMSA 1978, 62-6-1 NMSA 1978, 62-6-4 NMSA 1978, 62-6-16 NMSA 1978, 62-6-18 NMSA 1978, 62-6-19 NMSA 1978, 62-6-20 NMSA 1978, 62-6-21 NMSA 1978, 62-6-22 NMSA 1978, 62-8-3 NMSA 1978, 62-8-10 NMSA 1978, and …

Permanent.

November 10, 2020 unless a later date is cited at the end of a section.

17.12.760 NMAC is intended to promote safe and adequate service to the public, to provide standards for uniform and reasonable practices by water utilities under the jurisdiction of the public regulation commission, and to establish a basis for determining the reasonableness of s…

The customer service rules and regulations set forth in 17.12.760 NMAC establish the responsibilities and rights of jurisdictional water utilities and their residential customers in their water service relationship. Nothing herein shall prevent any utility from adopting customer …

New Mexico Public Regulation Commission.

A. Notice required. At least sixty (60) days prior to filing with the commission a schedule proposing a change in rate or rates, a small water utility shall notify its ratepayers of the proposed rate or rates in writing. The utility may mail the notice to ratepayers either with t…

A. Suspension of rates upon filing of staff motion. Rates proposed under 17.12.770 NMAC by a utility with more than one thousand five hundred (1,500) but less than five thousand (5,000) service connections in any operating district or division, averaged over the previous three (3…

A. Suspension of rates upon filing of protest. Rates proposed by a small water utility under 17.12.770 NMAC will be subject to suspension, review, and hearing by the commission upon the timely filing with the commission of a protest. B. For a utility with one thousand five hundre…

A. Contents of protest. Protest petitions to the commission shall be in writing, and signed by each of the ratepayers submitting the protest. All protests shall contain the following: (1) the name of the utility whose proposed rates are being protested and identification of the r…

A. Response with leave of commission. No response to the substance of a protest filed with the commission is permitted except by leave of the commission or hearing examiner. B. Challenge to validity of protest petition. The utility whose proposed rates are being protested may cha…

A. Notice of hearing. Once the commission determines that just cause exists to review the proposed rate or rates, the commission shall issue an order noticing the rate or rates for hearing. Either this order or a subsequent order shall prescribe: (1) the manner of any further not…

A. Information to be submitted upon commission determination of just cause. After a commission determination of just cause for review of the proposed rate or rates, the utility shall file the following information and documents with the commission within thirty (30) days unless t…

The protestants who file a protest will be deemed parties to any proceeding on a motion made by the utility under 17.12.770.14 NMAC but will not be deemed parties to the proceeding to review and hear the proposed rate or rates. Protestants may individually move to intervene under…

This part governs the filing and review of changes in rates proposed by small water utilities as defined by Section 62-8-7.1 A NMSA 1978 (2005). A. Exception for 50 percent or more rate increase proposal for small water utilities with 1,500 or fewer service connections. The provi…

Sections 8-8-4, 62-3-1, 62-3-2.1, 62-3-4, 62-6-4, 62-8-3, 62-8-7 and 62-8-7.1 NMSA 1978.

Permanent.

July 31, 2007, unless a later date is cited at the end of a section.

The purpose of 17.12.770 NMAC is to carry out the explicit legislative intent of Sections 62-3-2.1 and 62-8-7.1 NMSA 1978, as amended, to limit governmental regulation of rate setting by small water utilities and to provide a degree of regulatory oversight of small water utilitie…

In addition to the definitions in 17.12.1.7 NMAC, certain terms as used in this rule are defined as follows. A. Advice notice means a listing by a water utility of proposed changes in tariff schedules and proposed effective dates that has been provided to the public and filed wit…

A. A small water utility may adjust its commodity charge and customer service charge by up to two percent (2%) in any calendar year without a hearing, provided that the utility: (1) is in good standing with all applicable commission rules and orders; (2) shall not have changed it…

A. This section applies to the filing and review of changes in rates proposed by small water utilities except small water utilities filing for a two percent (2%) rate change under 17.12.770.8 NMAC that have given proper notice according to 17.12.770.10 NMAC and small water utilit…

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

A. To meet the Commission's minimum data filing requirements specified herein, the Class C water utility applicant must maintain adequate financial records fully separated from any commonly owned enterprise and requires that the applicant have on file with the Commission fully co…

A. A Class D water utility may apply for rate adjustments by means of the formal procedure outlined in rules governing Class C water utilities or by following the procedure prescribed below which is intended to reduce filing requirements to shorten the time period between applica…

NMPUC Case No. 2086, order dated June 30, 1988, unless otherwise noted; amended by NMPUC Case No. 2561, Order dated April 4, 1994. Formerly part of General Order No. 42, superseded for purposes of rule reorganization and codification..

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The purpose of NMPSC Rule 780 [17.12.780 NMAC] is to define and specify the minimum data requirements to be filed by water utilities in support of a tendered new rate schedule or rate schedules which will supersede, supplement, or otherwise change the provision of a rate schedule…

A. Purpose [17.12.780.6 NMAC] B. Minimum Data Requirements for Rate Filings [17.12.780.9 NMAC] C. Rate Filing Package Required of Class C Water Utilities [17.12.780.10 NMAC] D. Rate Filing Package Required of Class D Water Utilities [17.12.780.11 NMAC] E. Appendix Rate Applicatio…

Provisions for rate filings are divided into the three (3) levels of operation set out in the classification of water utilities in NMPSC Rule 710.4 [17.12.1.7 NMAC]. NMPSC Rule 780 [17.12.780 NMAC] provides that water utilities shall file for rates in one of three formats. Class …