Texas Utilities Code Title 2, Chapter 38 - Regulation Of Electric Services

SUBCHAPTER A STANDARDS

• Texas Section 38.001 - General Standard
  An electric utility and an electric cooperative shall furnish service, instrumentalities, and facilities that are safe, adequate, efficient, and reasonable. Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch....
• Texas Section 38.002 - Authority Of Regulatory Authority Concerning Standards
  A regulatory authority, on its own motion or on complaint and after reasonable notice and hearing, may: (1) adopt just and reasonable standards, classifications, rules,...
• Texas Section 38.003 - Rule Or Standard
  (a) An electric utility may not impose a rule except as provided by this title. (b) An electric utility may file with the regulatory authority...
• Texas Section 38.004 - Minimum Clearance Standard
  Notwithstanding any other law, a transmission or distribution line owned by an electric utility or an electric cooperative must be constructed, operated, and maintained, as...

SUBCHAPTER B PROHIBITIONS ON PREFERENCES AND DISCRIMINATION

• Texas Section 38.005 - Electric Service Reliability Measures
  (a) The commission shall implement service quality and reliability standards relating to the delivery of electricity to retail customers by electric utilities and transmission and...
• Texas Section 38.021 - Unreasonable Preference Or Prejudice Concerning Service Prohibited
  In providing a service to persons in a classification, an electric utility may not: (1) grant an unreasonable preference or advantage to a person in...

SUBCHAPTER C EXAMINATIONS, TESTS, AND INSPECTIONS

• Texas Section 38.022 - Discrimination And Restriction On Competition
  An electric utility may not: (1) discriminate against a person or electric cooperative who sells or leases equipment or performs services in competition with the...
• Texas Section 38.051 - Examination And Test Of Instrument Or Equipment; Inspection
  (a) A regulatory authority may: (1) examine and test equipment, including meters and instruments, used to measure service of an electric utility; and (2) set...

SUBCHAPTER D IMPROVEMENTS IN SERVICE

• Texas Section 38.052 - Inspection For Consumer
  (a) A consumer may have a meter or other measuring device tested by an electric utility: (1) once without charge, after a reasonable period of...
• Texas Section 38.071 - Improvements In Service; Interconnecting Service
  The commission, after notice and hearing, may: (1) order an electric utility to provide specified improvements in its service in a specified area if: (A)...
• Texas Section 38.072 - Priorities For Power Restoration To Certain Medical Facilities
  (a) In this section: (1) "Assisted living facility" has the meaning assigned by Section 247.002, Health and Safety Code. (2) "Extended power outage" has the...

SUBCHAPTER E INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE REPORT

• Texas Section 38.073 - Authority Of Commission During An Emergency
  (a) On a declaration of a natural disaster or other emergency by the governor, the commission may require an electric utility, municipally owned utility, electric...
• Texas Section 38.101 - Report On Infrastructure Improvement And Maintenance
  (a) Not later than May 1 of each year, each electric utility shall submit to the commission a report describing the utility's activities related to:...

Last modified: September 28, 2016