Tex. Util. Code § 121.052 · Subchapter B. PUBLIC POLICY
PIPELINES: MONOPOLIES SUBJECT TO RAILROAD COMMISSION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The operation of a pipeline for buying, selling, transporting, producing, or otherwise dealing in natural gas is a business which in its nature and according to the established method of conducting the business is a monopoly.
(b) A business described by this section may not be conducted unless the gas pipeline used in connection with the business is subject to the jurisdiction conferred by this chapter on the railroad commission.
(c) The attorney general shall enforce this section by injunction or other remedy.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/UT/htm/UT.121.htm
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