Texas Utilities Code Title 2, Chapter 59 - Infrastructure Plan
SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Texas Section 59.001 - Policy
It is the policy of this state that an incumbent local exchange company that does not elect to be regulated under Chapter 58 should have...
SUBCHAPTER B INFRASTRUCTURE INCENTIVES
- Texas Section 59.002 - Definitions
In this chapter: (1) "Electing company" means an incumbent local exchange company that elects for an infrastructure commitment and corresponding regulation under this chapter. (2)...
- Texas Section 59.021 - Election
(a) An incumbent local exchange company may elect to make an infrastructure commitment and to be subject to corresponding regulation under this chapter if the...
- Texas Section 59.022 - Withdrawal Of Election
(a) The commission may allow an electing company to withdraw the company's election under this chapter: (1) on application by the company; and (2) only...
- Texas Section 59.023 - Election Under Chapter 58
(a) This chapter does not prohibit a company electing under this chapter from electing incentive regulation under Chapter 58. (b) If a company makes an...
- Texas Section 59.024 - Rate Changes
(a) Except for the charges permitted under Subchapter C, Chapter 55, Subchapter B, Chapter 56, and Section 55.024, an electing company may not, before the...
- Texas Section 59.025 - Switched Access Rates
Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, the commission may not, on the commission's own motion, reduce an electing company's rates for switched access services...
- Texas Section 59.026 - Complaint Or Hearing
(a) On or before the end of the company's election period, an electing company is not, under any circumstances, subject to: (1) a complaint or...
- Texas Section 59.027 - Consumer Complaints Regarding Tariffs
(a) This chapter does not restrict: (1) a consumer's right to complain to the commission about the application of an ambiguous tariff; or (2) the...
- Texas Section 59.028 - Consumer Complaints Regarding Services; Enforcement Of Standards
This chapter does not restrict: (1) a consumer's right to complain to the commission about quality of service; or (2) the commission's right to enforce...
- Texas Section 59.029 - Investment Limitation On Service Standards
(a) The commission may not raise a service standard applicable to the provision of local exchange telephone service by an electing company if the increased...
- Texas Section 59.030 - New Services
(a) An electing company may introduce a new service 10 days after providing an informational notice to the commission, to the office, and to any...
- Texas Section 59.031 - Pricing And Packaging Flexibility
(a) Notwithstanding Section 59.027(b) or Subchapter F, Chapter 60, an electing company may exercise pricing flexibility in accordance with this section, including the packaging of...
SUBCHAPTER C INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITMENT AND GOALS
- Texas Section 59.032 - Customer Promotional Offerings
(a) An electing company may offer a promotion for a regulated service for not more than 90 days in any 12-month period. (b) The electing...
- Texas Section 59.051 - Infrastructure Commitment
(a) An electing company shall commit to make in this state, during the six years after the election date, the telecommunications infrastructure investment prescribed by...
- Texas Section 59.052 - Infrastructure Goals
(a) The commission shall ensure that each electing company achieves the infrastructure goals described by this section. (b) Each new central office switch installed for...
- Texas Section 59.053 - Waiver Of Infrastructure Requirements
(a) For an electing company that serves fewer than one million lines, the commission may waive a requirement prescribed by Section 59.052 if the company...
- Texas Section 59.054 - Progress Report
(a) On each anniversary of the company's election date, an electing company shall file with the commission a report on the company's progress on its...
SUBCHAPTER D INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITMENT TO CERTAIN ENTITIES
- Texas Section 59.055 - Implementation Costs; Increase In Rates And Universal Service Funds
The commission may not consider the cost of implementing Section 59.052 in determining whether an electing company is entitled to: (1) a rate increase under...
- Texas Section 59.071 - Definitions
In this subchapter: (1) "Educational institution" has the meaning assigned by Section 57.021. (2) "Library" means: (A) a public library or regional library system as...
- Texas Section 59.072 - Private Network Services For Certain Entities
(a) On customer request, an electing company shall provide private network services to: (1) an educational institution; (2) a library; (3) a telemedicine center; or...
- Texas Section 59.073 - Investment Priorities
An electing company shall give investment priority to serving: (1) rural areas; (2) areas designated as critically underserved medically or educationally; and (3) educational institutions...
- Texas Section 59.074 - Contracts For Private Network Services
(a) An electing company shall provide a private network service under a customer-specific contract. (b) An electing company shall offer private network service contracts under...
- Texas Section 59.075 - Preferred Rate Treatment Warranted
The classes of customers described by Section 59.072(a) warrant preferred rate treatment. However, a rate charged for a service must cover the service's long run...
- Texas Section 59.076 - Election Of Rate Treatment
An educational institution or a library may elect the rate treatment provided by this subchapter or the discount provided by Subchapter B, Chapter 57. Acts...
- Texas Section 59.077 - Private Network Services Rates And Tariffs
(a) Notwithstanding the pricing flexibility authorized by this subtitle, an electing company's rates for private network services may not be increased before January 1, 2016....
- Texas Section 59.078 - Private Line Or Special Access Rates
(a) On request by an educational institution or a library, an electing company shall provide 1.544 megabits a second private line or special access service...
- Texas Section 59.079 - Complaints Limited
Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, an electing company is subject to a complaint under Subchapter C or this subchapter only by an entity...
- Texas Section 59.080 - Interconnection Of Network Services
The private network services provided under this subchapter may be interconnected with other similar networks for distance learning, telemedicine, and information-sharing purposes. Acts 1997, 75th...
- Texas Section 59.081 - Sharing Or Resale Of Network Services
(a) A private network service may be used and shared among the entities described by Section 59.072(a) but may not be otherwise shared or resold...
- Texas Section 59.082 - Implementation Costs; Increase In Rates And Universal Service Funds
The commission may not consider the cost of implementing this subchapter in determining whether an electing company is entitled to: (1) a rate increase under...
- Texas Section 59.083 - Continuation Of Obligation
Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, an electing company shall continue to comply with this subchapter until January 1, 2016, regardless of: (1) the...
Last modified: September 28, 2016