Tex. Util. Code § 40.052 · Subchapter B. MUNICIPALLY OWNED UTILITY CHOICE
UTILITY NOT OFFERING CUSTOMER CHOICE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A municipally owned utility that has not chosen to participate in customer choice may not offer electric energy at unregulated prices directly to retail customers outside its certificated retail service area.
(b) A municipally owned utility under Subsection (a) retains the right to offer and provide a full range of customer service and pricing programs to the customers within its certificated area and to purchase and sell electric energy at wholesale without geographic restriction.
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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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/UT/htm/UT.40.htm
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