Tex. Utilities Code § 60.004

This is the official text of Tex. Utilities Code § 60.004, part of Texas’s Utilities Code — regulates utility companies.

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§ 60.004. APPLICABILITY TO CERTAIN SMALLER INCUMBENT LOCAL EXCHANGE COMPANIES; RULES.

Official statutory text

(a) Subchapters B, C, and H may be applied to an incumbent local exchange company that serves fewer than 31,000 access lines only on a bona fide request from a certificated telecommunications utility.

(b) In applying the rules adopted under Subchapters B, C, and H to a company described by Subsection (a), the commission may modify the rules in the public interest.

(c) This section takes effect September 1, 1998.

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