Arizona Revised Statutes

Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 30-801 (2026)

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30-801. Definitions

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. "Electricity" or "electric service" means electric energy, electric capacity or electric capacity and energy.

2. "Public power entity":

(a) Means any municipal corporation, city, town or other political subdivision that is organized under state law, that generates, transmits, distributes or otherwise provides electricity and that is not a public service corporation.

(b) Does not include:

(i) A city or town with a population of less than seventy-five thousand persons.

(ii) A power district, electrical district, irrigation and water conservation district or multi-county water conservation district established pursuant to title 48, chapter 11, 12, 19 or 22.

(iii) The Arizona power authority.

3. "Retail electric customer" means a person that purchases electricity for that person's own use, including use in that person's trade or business, and not for resale, redistribution or retransmission.

4. "Service territory" means the geographic area in which a public power entity or public service corporation owns, operates, controls or maintains either electric distribution facilities or natural gas distribution facilities and that additional area in which the public power entity or public service corporation has agreed to extend electric distribution facilities or natural gas distribution facilities, whether established by a certificate of convenience and necessity, by official action by a public power entity or by contract or agreement.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 3 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 2001–2022 · leading case: Phelps Dodge Corp. v. Arizona Elec. Power Co-Op., Inc., 83 P.3d 573 (Ariz. Ct. App. 2004).

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Phelps Dodge Corp. v. Arizona Elec. Power Co-Op., Inc., 83 P.3d 573 (Ariz. Ct. App. 2004). · cites it 2× “A.R.S. § 30-801(16) (2002). [15] But see Woods, 171 Ariz.”

Hohokam Irrigation & Drainage Dist. v. Arizona Pub. Serv. Co., 35 P.3d 117 (Ariz. Ct. App. 2001). · cites it 2× “Hohokam asked the trial court to declare that Hohokam has a right to own, operate, and maintain an electrical distribution and transmission system; that APS lacks legal authority to prevent Hohokam from selling electrical power within the boundaries of Hohokam’s designated…”

Ellis v. Salt River Proj. Agric. Improvement & Power Dist. (D. Ariz. 2022). · cites it 2× “” Plaintiffs are not providers of 5 an “electric generation service,” which is statutorily defined as “the provision of electricity 6 for sale to retail electric customers,” A.R.S. § 30-801(10). 7 Thus, the Court finds that Plaintiffs’ challenges to the legitimacy of SRP’s 8…”

— Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 30-801(10) — 1 case

Ellis v. Salt River Proj. Agric. Improvement & Power Dist. (D. Ariz. 2022). “” Plaintiffs are not providers of 5 an “electric generation service,” which is statutorily defined as “the provision of electricity 6 for sale to retail electric customers,” A.R.S. § 30-801(10). 7 Thus, the Court finds that Plaintiffs’ challenges to the legitimacy of SRP’s 8…”

— Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 30-801(16) — 1 case

Phelps Dodge Corp. v. Arizona Elec. Power Co-Op., Inc., 83 P.3d 573 (Ariz. Ct. App. 2004). “A.R.S. § 30-801(16) (2002). [15] But see Woods, 171 Ariz.”

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