Tex. Utilities Code § 40.052
This is the official text of Tex. Utilities Code § 40.052, part of Texas’s Utilities Code — regulates utility companies.
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§ 40.052. UTILITY NOT OFFERING CUSTOMER CHOICE.
Official statutory text
(a) A municipally owned utility that has not chosen to participate in customer choice may not offer electric energy at unregulated prices directly to retail customers outside its certificated retail service area.
(b) A municipally owned utility under Subsection (a) retains the right to offer and provide a full range of customer service and pricing programs to the customers within its certificated area and to purchase and sell electric energy at wholesale without geographic restriction.
(b) A municipally owned utility under Subsection (a) retains the right to offer and provide a full range of customer service and pricing programs to the customers within its certificated area and to purchase and sell electric energy at wholesale without geographic restriction.
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