Tex. Util. Code § 52.102 · Subchapter C. TELECOMMUNICATIONS UTILITIES THAT ARE NOT DOMINANT CARRIERS
LIMITED REGULATORY AUTHORITY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Except as otherwise provided by this subchapter, Subchapters D and K, Chapter 55, and Section 55.011, the commission has only the following jurisdiction over a telecommunications utility subject to this subchapter:
(1) to require registration under Section 52.103;
(2) to conduct an investigation under Section 52.104;
(3) to require the filing of reports as the commission periodically directs;
(4) to require the maintenance of statewide average rates or prices of telecommunications service;
(5) to require a telecommunications utility that had more than six percent of the total intrastate access minutes of use as measured for the most recent 12-month period to pass switched access rate reductions under this title to customers as required by Section 52.112;
(6) to require access to telecommunications service under Section 52.105; and
(7) to require the quality of telecommunications service provided to be adequate under Section 52.106.
(b) The authority provided by Subsection (a)(5) expires on the date on which Section 52.112 expires.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997. Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 62, Sec. 18.04(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1999; Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1212, Sec. 9, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/UT/htm/UT.52.htm
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Utilities Code
- Tex. Util. Code § 52.103REGISTRATION REQUIRED.Printed as Section 52.103
- Tex. Util. Code § 52.104COMMISSION MAY INVESTIGATE.Printed as Section 52.104
- Tex. Util. Code § 52.105ACCESS TO CERTAIN SERVICES REQUIRED.Printed as Section 52.105
- Tex. Util. Code § 52.106QUALITY OF SERVICE REQUIRED.Printed as Section 52.106
- Tex. Util. Code § 52.112REDUCTION PASS-THROUGH REQUIRED.Printed as Section 52.112
- Tex. Util. Code ch. 55REGULATION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICESPrinted as Chapter 55
- Tex. Util. Code § 55.011NOTICE OF IDENTITY OF INTEREXCHANGE CARRIER.Printed as Section 55.011
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