Tex. Util. Code § 55.023 · Subchapter B. EXTENDED AREA SERVICE
OPTIONAL EXTENDED AREA SERVICE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The commission may order optional extended area service in a specified calling area if:
(1) each affected company and the representatives of at least one political subdivision in the proposed calling area agree to the service; and
(2) the proposed common calling area has a single, continuous boundary.
(b) The commission may not adopt rules that diminish in any manner the ability of an affected company or a political subdivision to enter into joint agreements for optional extended area service under this section.
(c) In this section, "political subdivision" means:
(1) a county;
(2) a municipality; or
(3) an unincorporated town or village that has 275 or more access lines.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/UT/htm/UT.55.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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