Texas Utilities Code Title 2, Chapter 60 - Competitive Safeguards

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 60.001 - Fair Competition
  To the extent necessary to ensure that competition in telecommunications is fair to each participant and to accelerate the improvement of telecommunications in this state,...
• Texas Section 60.002 - Exclusive Jurisdiction; Enforcement
  (a) The commission has exclusive jurisdiction to implement competitive safeguards. (b) Section 58.025 does not prevent the commission from enforcing this chapter. Acts 1997, 75th...
• Texas Section 60.003 - Commission Authority
  (a) The commission may: (1) establish procedures with respect to a policy stated in this subchapter or Subchapters B-H; and (2) resolve a dispute that...
• Texas Section 60.004 - Applicability To Certain Smaller Incumbent Local Exchange Companies; Rules
  (a) Subchapters B, C, and H may be applied to an incumbent local exchange company that serves fewer than 31,000 access lines only on a...
• Texas Section 60.005 - Applicability To Certain Larger Incumbent Local Exchange Companies; Rules
  (a) Subchapters B, D, and F may be applied to an incumbent local exchange company that, as of September 1, 1995, has 31,000 or more...

SUBCHAPTER B UNBUNDLING

• Texas Section 60.006 - Bulletin Board Systems Unaffected
  This subtitle does not: (1) require the commission to change the rate treatment established by the commission in Docket No. 8387 for a bulletin board...
• Texas Section 60.021 - Minimum Unbundling Requirement
  At a minimum, an incumbent local exchange company shall unbundle its network to the extent the Federal Communications Commission orders. Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch....
• Texas Section 60.022 - Commission Unbundling Orders
  (a) The commission may adopt an order relating to the issue of unbundling of local exchange company services in addition to the unbundling required by...

SUBCHAPTER C RESALE

• Texas Section 60.023 - Assignment Of Unbundled Component To Category Of Service
  The commission may assign an unbundled component to the appropriate category of services under Chapter 58 according to the purposes and intents of the categories....
• Texas Section 60.041 - Loop Resale Tariff
  (a) An incumbent local exchange company that on September 1, 1995, serves one million or more access lines or that on or before September 1,...
• Texas Section 60.042 - Prohibited Resale Or Sharing
  (a) A provider of telecommunications service may not impose a restriction on the resale or sharing of a service: (1) for which the provider is...
• Texas Section 60.043 - Resale Obligation
  A holder of a certificate of operating authority or a service provider certificate of operating authority shall permit a local exchange company to resell the...
• Texas Section 60.044 - Elimination Of Resale Prohibitions
  (a) Except as provided by Subsections (c) and (d), the commission shall eliminate all resale prohibitions in the tariffs of an electing company on the:...

SUBCHAPTER D IMPUTATION

• Texas Section 60.045 - Resale Or Sharing Arrangements Unaffected
  This subchapter does not change a resale or sharing arrangement permitted in an incumbent local exchange company tariff that: (1) existed on September 1, 1995;...
• Texas Section 60.061 - Rules
  (a) The commission shall adopt rules governing imputation of the price of a service. (b) Imputation is a regulatory policy the commission shall apply to...
• Texas Section 60.062 - Exception For Capped Price
  The commission may not require imputation of the price to a local exchange telephone service while the price is capped under Chapter 58 or 59....
• Texas Section 60.063 - Imputation For Switched Access
  The commission shall impute the price of switched access service to the price of each service for which switched access service is a component until...
• Texas Section 60.064 - Recovery Of Cost Of Providing Service
  (a) An incumbent local exchange company shall demonstrate that the price it charges for retail service recovers the cost of providing the service. (b) For...

SUBCHAPTER E TELECOMMUNICATIONS NUMBER PORTABILITY

• Texas Section 60.065 - Waivers
  If the commission determines that a waiver is in the public interest, the commission may waive an imputation requirement for a public interest service such...
• Texas Section 60.081 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "telecommunications number portability" means the ability of a telecommunications services user who is changing from one telecommunications service provider to another provider...
• Texas Section 60.082 - Portability Guidelines
  (a) Because a uniform national number plan is valuable and necessary to this state, the commission by rule shall adopt guidelines governing telecommunications number portability...
• Texas Section 60.083 - Interim Retention Of Consumer Numbers
  As an interim measure, the commission shall adopt reasonable mechanisms, including, at minimum, the use of call forwarding and direct inward dialing, to allow consumers...

SUBCHAPTER F PRICING

• Texas Section 60.084 - Rates For Interim Portability Measures
  (a) An incumbent local exchange company with one million or more access lines shall file tariffs, and the commission shall determine reasonable rates to be...
• Texas Section 60.101 - Pricing Rule
  (a) The commission shall adopt a pricing rule. (b) In adopting the pricing rule, the commission shall: (1) ensure that each price for a monopoly...

SUBCHAPTER G INTERCONNECTION

• Texas Section 60.102 - Adoption Of Cost Studies By Certain Companies
  The commission shall allow an incumbent local exchange company that is not a Tier 1 local exchange company on September 1, 1995, to adopt, at...
• Texas Section 60.121 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "interconnection" means, for calls that originate and terminate in this state, the termination of local intraexchange traffic of another local exchange company...
• Texas Section 60.122 - Exclusive Jurisdiction
  The commission has exclusive jurisdiction to determine rates and terms for interconnection for a holder of a certificate of convenience and necessity, a certificate of...
• Texas Section 60.123 - Inapplicability Of Subchapter
  This subchapter does not apply to a rate for the existing termination of cellular or interexchange traffic. Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1,...
• Texas Section 60.124 - Interoperable Networks Required
  (a) The commission shall require each telecommunications provider to maintain interoperable networks. (b) The commission may: (1) adopt rules, including generic rules that are responsive...
• Texas Section 60.125 - Determination Of Interconnection Rates
  (a) Telecommunications providers shall negotiate network interconnectivity, charges, and terms. (b) If interconnectivity, charges, and terms are successfully negotiated, the commission shall approve the interconnection...
• Texas Section 60.126 - Interconnectivity Negotiations; Dispute Resolution
  The commission may resolve a dispute filed by a party to a negotiation under Section 60.125(a). Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff....
• Texas Section 60.127 - Adoption Of Approved Interconnection Rates
  (a) An incumbent local exchange company may adopt the interconnection rates the commission approves for a larger incumbent local exchange company without additional cost justification....

SUBCHAPTER H EXPANDED INTERCONNECTION

• Texas Section 60.128 - Use Of Rates Restricted
  The commission may not use interconnection rates under this subchapter as a basis to alter interconnection rates for other services. Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch....

SUBCHAPTER I LOCAL EXCHANGE COMPANY REQUIREMENTS

• Texas Section 60.141 - Expanded Interconnection Rules
  The commission shall adopt rules for expanded interconnection that: (1) are consistent with the rules and regulations of the Federal Communications Commission relating to expanded...
• Texas Section 60.161 - Incumbent Local Exchange Company Requirements
  An incumbent local exchange company may not unreasonably: (1) discriminate against another provider by refusing access to the local exchange; (2) refuse or delay an...
• Texas Section 60.162 - Expanded Interconnection
  This subchapter does not require an incumbent local exchange company to provide expanded interconnection as that term is defined by the Federal Communications Commission. Acts...
• Texas Section 60.163 - Infrastructure Sharing
  (a) The commission shall adopt rules that require a local exchange company to share public switched network infrastructure and technology with a requesting local exchange...
• Texas Section 60.164 - Permissible Joint Marketing
  Except as prescribed in Chapters 61, 62, and 63, the commission may not adopt any rule or order that would prohibit a local exchange company...

SUBCHAPTER J WHOLESALE CODE OF CONDUCT

• Texas Section 60.165 - Affiliate Rule
  Except as prescribed in Chapters 61, 62, and 63, the commission may not adopt any rule or order that would prescribe for any local exchange...
• Texas Section 60.201 - Statement Of Policy
  It is the policy of this state that providers of telecommunications services operate in a manner that is consistent with minimum standards to provide customers...
• Texas Section 60.202 - Applicability Of Subchapter
  A provision of this subchapter applies only to the extent the provision has not been preempted by federal law or a rule, regulation, or order...
• Texas Section 60.203 - Minimum Service Requirements
  A telecommunications provider may not unreasonably: (1) discriminate against another provider by refusing access to an exchange; (2) refuse or delay an interconnection to another...
• Texas Section 60.204 - Interconnection
  A telecommunications provider shall provide interconnection with other telecommunications providers' networks for the transmission and routing of telephone exchange service and exchange access. Added by...
• Texas Section 60.205 - Number Portability
  A telecommunications provider shall provide number portability in accordance with federal requirements. Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., 2nd C.S., Ch. 2 (S.B. 5), Sec....
• Texas Section 60.206 - Duty To Negotiate
  A telecommunications provider shall negotiate in good faith the terms and conditions of any agreement. Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., 2nd C.S., Ch. 2...
• Texas Section 60.207 - Dialing Parity
  (a) A telecommunications provider shall provide dialing parity to competing telecommunications providers of telephone exchange service and telephone toll service. (b) A telecommunications provider shall...
• Texas Section 60.208 - Access To Rights-of-way
  A telecommunications provider shall provide access to poles, ducts, conduits, and rights-of-way to competing providers of telecommunications service on rates, terms, and conditions that are...
• Texas Section 60.209 - Reciprocal Compensation
  A telecommunications provider shall establish reciprocal compensation arrangements for the transport and termination of telecommunications. Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., 2nd C.S., Ch. 2...
• Texas Section 60.210 - Access To Services
  A telecommunications provider shall provide access to: (1) 911 and E-911 service; (2) directory assistance service to allow other telecommunications providers' customers to obtain telephone...

Last modified: September 28, 2016