Tex. Utilities Code § 41.051

This is the official text of Tex. Utilities Code § 41.051, part of Texas’s Utilities Code — regulates utility companies.

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§ 41.051. BOARD DECISION.

Official statutory text

(a) The board of directors has the discretion to decide when or if the electric cooperative will provide customer choice.

(b) Electric cooperatives that choose to participate in customer choice may do so at any time on or after January 1, 2002, by adoption of an appropriate resolution of the board of directors. The decision to participate in customer choice by the adoption of a resolution may be revoked only if no customer has opted for choice within four years of the resolution's adoption. An electric cooperative may initiate a customer choice pilot project at any time.

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