Tex. Util. Code § 40.051 · Subchapter B. MUNICIPALLY OWNED UTILITY CHOICE
GOVERNING BODY DECISION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The municipal governing body or a body vested with the power to manage and operate a municipally owned utility has the discretion to decide when or if the municipally owned utility will provide customer choice.
(b) Municipally owned utilities may choose to participate in customer choice at any time on or after January 1, 2002, by adoption of an appropriate resolution of the municipal governing body or a body vested with power to manage and operate the municipally owned utility. The decision to participate in customer choice by the adoption of a resolution is irrevocable.
(c) After a decision to offer customer choice has been made, Subchapters D and E, Chapter 33, do not apply to any action taken under this chapter.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 405, Sec. 39, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/UT/htm/UT.40.htm
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Utilities Code
- Tex. Util. Code § 40.004JURISDICTION OF COMMISSION.Printed as Section 40.051(c)
- Tex. Util. Code § 40.059MUNICIPAL POWER AGENCY; RECOVERY OF STRANDED COSTS.Printed as Section 40.051(b)
- Tex. Util. Code § 40.060NO POWER TO AMEND CERTIFICATES.Printed as Section 40.051(b)
- Tex. Util. Code § 40.104TAX-EXEMPT STATUS.Printed as Section 40.051(b)
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