Tex. Util. Code § 53.003 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
JUST AND REASONABLE RATES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The commission shall ensure that each rate a public utility or two or more public utilities jointly make, demand, or receive is just and reasonable.
(b) A rate may not be unreasonably preferential, prejudicial, or discriminatory but must be sufficient, equitable, and consistent in application to each class of consumer.
(c) A public utility may not:
(1) grant an unreasonable preference or advantage concerning rates to a person in a classification;
(2) subject a person in a classification to an unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage concerning rates; or
(3) establish or maintain an unreasonable difference concerning rates between localities or between classes of service.
(d) In establishing a public utility's rates, the commission may treat as a single class two or more municipalities that a public utility serves if the commission considers that treatment to be appropriate.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/UT/htm/UT.53.htm
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Cited by 4 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Util. Code § 53.003. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Utilities Code
- Tex. Util. Code § 52.054RULES AND PROCEDURES FOR INCUMBENT LOCAL EXCHANGE COMPANIES.Printed as Sections 53.003, 53.006, 53.051, 53.052, 53.053, 53.054, 53.055, 53.057, 53.058, 53.060, and 53.062
- Tex. Util. Code § 52.108OTHER PROHIBITED PRACTICES.Printed as Section 53.003, 55.005, or 55.006
- Tex. Util. Code § 58.052REGULATION OF SERVICES.Printed as Sections 53.001, 53.003, 53.004, 53.006, 53.065, 55.005, 55.006, 55.009, and 55.010
- Tex. Util. Code § 60.165AFFILIATE RULE.Printed as Section 53.003
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