In the Canadian Electrical Code (CSA C22.1-98), section 0, Scope, exception (a).
"Installations or equipment employed by an electric, a communication, or a community antenna distribution system utility in the exercize of its function as a utility, and located outdoors or in buildings or sections of buildings used for that purpose; and ...................................." The CEC defines all manner of things in that para but not what a utility is. It says to use ordinary dictionaries, but neither Webster or Oxford (my smaller versions anyway) were very helpful. I did find a definition in the IEEE Standard Dictionary of Electrical and Electronic Terms: "Utility (transmission and distribution) An organization responsible for the installation , operation or maintenance of electric supply or communication systems." All this still does not tell me where my folklore about "public" utilities versus non-public utilities comes from, much less where the source of the story on "contiguous property of the public utility" came from. I should correct that, I got the story from representatives of some of the BIG telephone companies and took their words for gospel. I believe they got it somewhere as well, but I will have to ferret that out. It may have gone into the graves of some of my better friends. Ciao, Vic
