Tex. Util. Code § 54.006 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
REQUEST FOR PRELIMINARY ORDER.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A telecommunications utility that wants to exercise a right or privilege under a franchise or permit that the utility anticipates obtaining but has not been granted may apply to the commission for a preliminary order under this section.
(b) The commission may issue a preliminary order declaring that the commission, on application and under commission rules, will grant the requested certificate of convenience and necessity, certificate of operating authority, or service provider certificate of operating authority, on terms the commission designates, after the telecommunications utility obtains the franchise or permit.
(c) The commission shall grant the certificate on presentation of evidence satisfactory to the commission that the telecommunications utility has obtained the franchise or permit.
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
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/UT/htm/UT.54.htm
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