Tex. Transp. Code § 194.001 · Chapter 194. PROVISION OF UTILITIES BY CERTAIN RAILWAY CORPORATIONS
EXTENSION OF UTILITY LINES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) This section applies only to a corporation organized under the laws of this state that is authorized to:
(1) construct, acquire, and operate electric or other lines of railway in and between municipalities in this state; and
(2) acquire, hold, and operate other public utilities in and adjacent to the municipalities in or through which the corporation operates.
(b) A corporation described by Subsection (a) may extend its electric light, power, or gas lines to supply light, power, or gas, as appropriate, to the public residing beyond the territory adjacent to the municipalities in or through which the corporation operates.
(c) For the purpose of extending a line described by Subsection (b), the corporation has the same rights and powers of extension held by a public service corporation engaged in the supply and sale of electric light, power, or gas as provided by law.
(d) The authority granted under this section does not expressly or impliedly repeal any antitrust law of this state.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 91 (S.B. 1303), Sec. 24.101, eff. September 1, 2011.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.194.htm
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