Tex. Water Code § 13.134 · Subchapter E. RECORDS, REPORTS, INSPECTIONS, RATES, AND SERVICES
REPORT OF ADVERTISING OR PUBLIC RELATIONS EXPENSES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The regulatory authority may require an annual report from each utility company of all its expenditures for business gifts and entertainment and institutional, consumption-inducing, and other advertising or public relations expenses.
(b) The regulatory authority shall not allow as costs or expenses for ratemaking purposes any of the expenditures that the regulatory authority determines not to be in the public interest. The cost of legislative advocacy expenses shall not in any case be allowed as costs or expenses for ratemaking purposes.
(c) Reasonable charitable or civic contributions may be allowed not to exceed the amount approved by the regulatory authority.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 795, Sec. 3.005, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/WA/htm/WA.13.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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