Tex. Util. Code § 141.006 · Chapter 141. STANDARDS FOR DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM RETAILERS
GROUNDS FOR REFUSAL TO SERVE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A distribution system retailer may refuse service to an applicant for new service or to an existing customer for continued service or reconnection if:
(1) an applicant or customer fails to pay fees, advances, contributions, or deposits required for service under the distribution system retailer's policies;
(2) an applicant or customer fails to furnish a service or meter location specified for service by the distribution system retailer;
(3) the existence or repeated creation of an unsafe condition, such as impaired meter access or a leak in the applicant's piping system, may potentially create bodily harm or endanger life or property in the distribution system retailer's opinion;
(4) an applicant, customer, or service location owner is delinquent in payment for services provided by a distribution system retailer service location owner; or
(5) a current resident or occupant of the premises to receive service is delinquent in payment for services provided by a distribution system retailer.
(b) The right to refuse service ends when the cause for the refusal to serve is corrected.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1296 (H.B. 2532), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2013.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/UT/htm/UT.141.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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