As used in this chapter:
(1) "Gas department" shall mean the Cookeville Gas Department, engaged in the operation of the Cookeville Natural Gas Distribution System and its duly authorized officers and employees.
(2) "Commercial customers" shall mean customers engaged primarily in the sale of goods or services including institutions and local, state and federal agencies for uses other than those involving manufacturing.
(3) "Industrial customers" shall mean customers engaged primarily in a process which creates or changes raw or unfinished materials into another form or product.
(4) "Residential consumers" shall mean those customers who consume gas from the gas department in a single or multiple unit dwelling with household appliances for the personal comfort and convenience of those residing in such dwelling.
When a portion of a dwelling is used regularly for the conduct of a business, which business consumes or utilizes gas from the gas department, the gas so used in the conduct of the business shall be metered separately from the gas consumed and used in the dwelling house purposes, otherwise the entire premises, both business and dwelling, will be classified as a commercial or industrial consumer, as set forth in this chapter.
(5) "Customer" means any person who receives gas service from the gas department under an expressed or implied contract requiring such person to pay the gas department for such service; and shall include any person upon whose property there is located a gas service line even though such service line is not in active use.
(6) "Service line" shall mean the pipe which leads from the gas department's gas distribution mains to a customer's building or other structure where such customer takes gas service. "Service line" does not include meter, shut-off cock, pressure regulator or gauges.
(7) "Day" whenever used with reference to a period for which gas used is measured or metered, shall mean a period of twenty-four consecutive hours beginning as near as practical to 9:00 A.M. Central Standard Time, and the date of any such day shall be the date of the calendar day on which said twenty-four hour period begins.
(1970 Code, § 13-201, modified)