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Texas Utilities Code - Chapter 104 Rates And ServicesLegal Research Home > Texas Lawyer > Utilities Code > Texas Utilities Code - Chapter 104 Rates And Services (a) The railroad commission is vested with all the authority and power of this state to ensure compliance with the obligations of gas utilities in ... A gas utility may not: (1) charge, collect, or receive a rate for utility service except as provided by this subtitle; or (2) impose a ... (a) The regulatory authority shall ensure that each rate a gas utility or two or more gas utilities jointly make, demand, or receive is just ... A gas utility may not: (1) grant an unreasonable preference or advantage concerning rates or services to a person in a classification; (2) subject a ... (a) A gas utility may not directly or indirectly charge, demand, collect, or receive from a person a greater or lesser compensation for a service ... Without the approval of the railroad commission, a gas utility's rates for an area not in a municipality may not exceed 115 percent of the ... A gas utility may not: (1) discriminate against a person who sells or leases equipment or performs services in competition with the gas utility; or ... In a proceeding involving a proposed rate change, the gas utility has the burden of proving that: (1) the rate change is just and reasonable, ... In establishing a gas utility's rates, the regulatory authority shall establish the utility's overall revenues at an amount that will permit the utility a reasonable ... The regulatory authority may not establish a rate that yields more than a fair return on the adjusted value of the invested capital used and ... (a) Gas utility rates shall be based on the adjusted value of invested capital used and useful to the utility in providing service and that ... (a) The railroad commission shall establish proper and adequate rates and methods of depreciation, amortization, or depletion for each class of property of a gas ... (a) Net income shall be used to establish just and reasonable rates. For that purpose, "net income" means the total revenues of the gas utility ... (a) In determining the allocation of tax savings derived from liberalized depreciation and amortization, the investment tax credit, and the application of similar methods, the ... (a) In establishing a gas utility's rates, the regulatory authority may not allow as a cost or expense an expenditure: (1) described by Section 102.154 ... In establishing a gas utility's or municipally owned utility's rates, the regulatory authority may not consider a profit or loss that results from the sale ... In this subchapter, "major change" means an increase in rates that would increase the aggregate revenues of the applicant more than the greater of $100,000 ... (a) A gas utility may not increase its rates unless the utility files a statement of its intent with the regulatory authority that has original ... (a) The gas utility shall: (1) publish, in conspicuous form, notice to the public of the proposed increase once each week for four successive weeks ... (a) For good cause shown, the regulatory authority may allow a rate increase, other than a major change, to take effect: (1) before the end ... (a) If a schedule modifying or increasing rates is filed with a regulatory authority, the regulatory authority shall, on complaint by an affected person, or ... The regulatory authority shall: (1) give preference to the hearing under this subchapter and to deciding questions arising under this subchapter over any other question ... (a) Pending the hearing and a decision: (1) the local regulatory authority, after delivering to the gas utility a written statement of the regulatory authority's ... (a) The regulatory authority may establish temporary rates to be in effect during the applicable suspension period under Section 104.107. (b) If the regulatory authority ... (a) A gas utility may put a changed rate into effect by filing a bond with the regulatory authority if the regulatory authority fails to ... (a) If, after hearing, the regulatory authority finds the rates are unreasonable or in violation of law, the regulatory authority shall: (1) enter an order ... Notwithstanding any other provision in this subtitle, the regulatory authority may, without reference to the cost of service standard prescribed by Section 104.051, administratively approve ... (a) This section applies to a gas utility's costs of relocating a facility to accommodate construction or improvement of a highway, road, street, public way, ... (a) If the regulatory authority, on its own motion or on complaint by an affected person, after reasonable notice and hearing, finds that the existing ... If a gas utility does not produce the service that it distributes, transmits, or furnishes to the public for compensation but obtains the service from ... (a) Notwithstanding Section 104.003(b), absent a contract for transportation service between a state agency and a gas utility or municipally owned utility, the railroad commission, ... (a) The rates that a gas utility or municipally owned utility charges a state agency may not include an amount representing a gross receipts assessment, ... (a) A payment made in lieu of a tax by a municipally owned utility to the municipality by which the utility is owned may not ... A gas utility shall furnish service, instrumentalities, and facilities that are safe, adequate, efficient, and reasonable. Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, § 1, eff. ... A regulatory authority, on its own motion or on complaint and after reasonable notice and hearing, may: (1) adopt just and reasonable standards, classifications, regulations, ... (a) A gas utility may file with the regulatory authority a standard, classification, regulation, or practice the utility follows. (b) The standard, classification, regulation, or ... A gas utility or municipally owned utility may not refuse to provide service to a state agency if pipeline capacity is available on an existing ... (a) In this section, "service site" means facilities or buildings operated by a public retail customer or a group of adjacent facilities or buildings operated ... (a) A gas utility or municipally owned utility may not bill or otherwise require the state or a state agency or institution to pay for ... A gas utility or municipally owned utility may transmit the utility's bill for services through the Internet or by other electronic means instead of through ... (a) A regulatory authority may: (1) examine and test equipment, including meters and instruments, used to measure service of a gas utility; and (2) set ... (a) A consumer may have a meter or other measuring device tested by a gas utility: (1) once without charge, after a reasonable period of ... (a) In this section: (1) "Extreme weather emergency" means a period during which the previous day's highest temperature did not exceed 32 degrees Fahrenheit and ... (a) A gas utility that has filed a rate case under Subchapter C within the preceding two years may file with the regulatory authority a ... Last modified: August 10, 2007 |