Texas Utilities Code Title 2, Chapter 37 - Certificates Of Convenience And Necessity
SUBCHAPTER A DEFINITIONS
SUBCHAPTER B CERTIFICATE OF CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY
- Texas Section 37.001 - Definitions
In this chapter: (1) "Certificate" means a certificate of convenience and necessity. (2) "Electric utility" includes an electric cooperative. (3) "Retail electric utility" means a...
- Texas Section 37.051 - Certificate Required
(a) An electric utility or other person may not directly or indirectly provide service to the public under a franchise or permit unless the utility...
- Texas Section 37.052 - Exceptions To Certificate Requirement For Service Extension
(a) An electric utility is not required to obtain a certificate for an: (1) extension into territory that is: (A) contiguous to the territory the...
- Texas Section 37.0521 - Exception For Retail Sales By Certain Qualifying Cogenerators
(a) Notwithstanding Section 37.001(3), a qualifying cogenerator may sell electric energy at retail to more than one purchaser of the cogenerator's thermal output. (b) Selling...
- Texas Section 37.053 - Application For Certificate
(a) An electric utility or other person that wants to obtain or amend a certificate must submit an application to the commission. (b) The applicant...
- Texas Section 37.054 - Notice And Hearing On Application
(a) When an application for a certificate is filed, the commission shall: (1) give notice of the application to interested parties and to the office;...
- Texas Section 37.0541 - Consolidation Of Certain Proceedings
The commission shall consolidate the proceeding on an application to obtain or amend a certificate of convenience and necessity for the construction of a transmission...
- Texas Section 37.055 - Request For Preliminary Order
(a) An electric utility or other person that wants to exercise a right or privilege under a franchise or permit that the utility or other...
- Texas Section 37.056 - Grant Or Denial Of Certificate
(a) The commission may approve an application and grant a certificate only if the commission finds that the certificate is necessary for the service, accommodation,...
- Texas Section 37.057 - Deadline For Application For New Transmission Facility
The commission may grant a certificate for a new transmission facility to a qualified applicant that meets the requirements of this subchapter. The commission must...
- Texas Section 37.058 - Certificate And Determination Issued To Certain Non-ercot Utilities For Generating Facility
(a) This section applies only to an electric utility that operates solely outside of ERCOT. (b) An electric utility may file with the commission a...
- Texas Section 37.059 - Revocation Or Amendment Of Certificate
(a) The commission may revoke or amend a certificate after notice and hearing if the commission finds that the certificate holder has never provided or...
- Texas Section 37.060 - Division Of Multiply Certificated Service Areas
(a) This subsection and Subsections (b)-(g) apply only to areas in which each retail electric utility that is authorized to provide retail electric utility service...
SUBCHAPTER C MUNICIPALITIES
- Texas Section 37.061 - Existing Service Area Agreements
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, the commission shall allow a municipally owned utility to amend the service area boundaries of its certificate...
- Texas Section 37.101 - Service In Annexed Or Incorporated Area
(a) If an area is or will be included within a municipality as the result of annexation, incorporation, or another reason, each electric utility and...
SUBCHAPTER D REGULATION OF SERVICES, AREAS, AND FACILITIES
- Texas Section 37.102 - Grant Of Certificate For Certain Municipalities
(a) If a municipal corporation offers retail electric utility service in a municipality having a population of more than 145,000 that is located in a...
- Texas Section 37.151 - Provision Of Service
Except as provided by this section, Section 37.152, and Section 37.153, a certificate holder, other than one granted a certificate under Section 37.051(d), shall: (1)...
- Texas Section 37.152 - Grounds For Reduction Of Service
(a) Unless the commission issues a certificate that the present and future convenience and necessity will not be adversely affected, a certificate holder may not...
- Texas Section 37.153 - Required Refusal Of Service
A certificate holder shall refuse to serve a customer in the holder's certificated area if the holder is prohibited from providing the service under Section...
- Texas Section 37.154 - Transfer Of Certificate
(a) An electric utility may sell, assign, or lease a certificate or a right obtained under a certificate if the commission determines that the purchaser,...
- Texas Section 37.155 - Application Of Contracts
A contract approved by the commission between retail electric utilities that designates areas and customers to be served by the utilities: (1) is valid and...
- Texas Section 37.156 - Interference With Another Utility
If an electric utility constructing or extending the utility's lines, plant, or system interferes or attempts to interfere with the operation of a line, plant,...
- Texas Section 37.157 - Maps
An electric utility shall file with the commission one or more maps that show each utility facility and that separately illustrate each utility facility for...
Last modified: September 28, 2016