Tex. Util. Code § 104.257 · Subchapter F. SERVICES
INSPECTION FOR CONSUMER.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A consumer may have a meter or other measuring device tested by a gas utility:
(1) once without charge, after a reasonable period of presumed accuracy that the regulatory authority establishes by rule; and
(2) at a shorter interval on payment of a reasonable fee established by the regulatory authority.
(b) The regulatory authority shall establish reasonable fees to be paid for other examining or testing of a measuring device on the request of a consumer.
(c) If the consumer requests the test under Subsection (a)(2) and the measuring device is found unreasonably defective or incorrect to the substantial disadvantage of the consumer, the fee the consumer paid at the time of the request shall be refunded.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/UT/htm/UT.104.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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