Texas Utilities Code - Section 17.002. Definitions
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§ 17.002. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
(1) "Billing agent" means any entity that submits
charges to the billing utility on behalf of itself or any provider
of a product or service.
(2) "Billing utility" means any telecommunications
provider, as defined by Section 51.002, retail electric provider,
or electric utility that issues a bill directly to a customer for
any telecommunications or electric product or service.
(3) "Certificated telecommunications utility" means a
telecommunications utility that has been granted either a
certificate of convenience and necessity, a certificate of
operating authority, or a service provider certificate of operating
authority.
(4) "Customer" means any person in whose name
telephone or retail electric service is billed, including
individuals, governmental units at all levels of government,
corporate entities, and any other entity with legal capacity to be
billed for telephone or retail electric service.
(5) "Electric utility" has the meaning assigned by
Section 31.002.
(6) "Retail electric provider" means a person that
sells electric energy to retail customers in this state after the
legislature authorizes a customer to receive retail electric
service from a person other than a certificated retail electric
utility.
(7) "Service provider" means any entity that offers a
product or service to a customer and that directly or indirectly
charges to or collects from a customer's bill an amount for the
product or service on a customer's bill received from a billing
utility.
(8) "Telecommunications utility" has the meaning
assigned by Section 51.002.
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1579, § 3, eff. Aug. 30, 1999.
Section: 16.004 16.021 16.041 16.042 16.043 16.044 17.001 17.002 17.003 17.004 17.005 17.006 17.007 17.008 17.009
Last modified: August 10, 2007
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