Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 552.906 · Subchapter Z. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
MUNICIPAL UTILITY PLANTS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) This section applies only to a general-law municipality that owns a utility plant that provides utility service.
(b) The governing body of a municipality may:
(1) by ordinance regulate the rates and compensation charged the public by the municipality for utility service;
(2) establish and operate a plant to manufacture, generate, or produce utility service; and
(3) sell and distribute utility service to the public in the municipality's boundaries.
(c) In this section, "utility service" means the provision of water, sewer service, gas, electric energy, or a substance used for lighting, heat, or power.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 4, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Renumbered from Local Government Code, Section 402.906 by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 885 (H.B. 2278), Sec. 3.76(a)(2), eff. April 1, 2009.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.552.htm
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