Texas Utilities Code Title 2, Chapter 65 - Deregulation Of Certain Incumbent Local Exchange Company Markets

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 65.001 - Statement Of Policy
  It is the policy of this state to provide for full rate and service competition in the telecommunications market of this state so that customers...
• Texas Section 65.002 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Deregulated company" means an incumbent local exchange company for which all of the company's markets have been deregulated. (2) "Market" means...
• Texas Section 65.003 - Commission Authority
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this title, the commission has authority to implement and enforce this chapter. (b) The commission may adopt rules and...
• Texas Section 65.004 - Information
  (a) The commission may collect and compile information from all telecommunications providers as necessary to implement and enforce this chapter. (b) The commission shall maintain...

SUBCHAPTER B DETERMINATION OF WHETHER MARKET SHOULD BE REGULATED

• Texas Section 65.005 - Customer Protection
  This chapter does not affect a customer's right to complain to the commission regarding a telecommunications provider. Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., 2nd C.S.,...
• Texas Section 65.051 - Markets Deregulated
  A market that is deregulated as of September 1, 2011, shall remain deregulated. Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, the commission may not reregulate...
• Texas Section 65.052 - Determination Of Whether A Market Should Remain Regulated
  (a) An incumbent local exchange company may petition the commission to deregulate a market of the company that the commission previously determined should remain regulated....

SUBCHAPTER C DEREGULATED COMPANY

• Texas Section 65.053 - Incumbent Local Exchange Company Markets
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 65.052, an incumbent local exchange company may elect to have all of the company's markets remain regulated on and after January 1,...
• Texas Section 65.101 - Issuance Of Certificate Of Operating Authority
  (a) A deregulated company may petition the commission to relinquish the company's certificate of convenience and necessity and receive a certificate of operating authority. (b)...

SUBCHAPTER D TRANSITIONING COMPANY

• Texas Section 65.102 - Requirements
  (a) A deregulated company that holds a certificate of operating authority issued under this subchapter is not required to: (1) fulfill the obligations of a...
• Texas Section 65.151 - Provisions Applicable To Transitioning Company
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a transitioning company is governed by this subchapter and the provisions of this title that applied to the...
• Texas Section 65.152 - General Requirements
  (a) A transitioning company may: (1) exercise pricing flexibility in a market subject only to the price and rate standards prescribed by Sections 65.153 and...
• Texas Section 65.153 - Rate Requirements
  (a) In a market that remains regulated, a transitioning company shall price the company's retail services in accordance with the provisions that applied to that...
• Texas Section 65.154 - Rate And Price Requirements Not Applicable
  (a) A transitioning company is not required to comply with the following requirements prescribed by this title on submission of a written notice to the...

SUBCHAPTER E REDUCTION OF SWITCHED ACCESS RATES

• Texas Section 65.155 - Complaint By Affected Person
  (a) An affected person may file a complaint at the commission challenging whether a transitioning company is complying with Section 65.154(b). (b) Notwithstanding Section 65.154(a)(2),...
• Texas Section 65.201 - Reduction Of Switched Access Rates By Deregulated Company
  (a) On the date the last market of an incumbent local exchange company is deregulated, the company shall reduce both the company's originating and terminating...
• Texas Section 65.202 - Reduction Of Switched Access Rates By Transitioning Company With More Than Three Million Access Lines
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, a transitioning company that has more than three million access lines in service in this state on...
• Texas Section 65.203 - Reduction Of Switched Access Rates By Certain Transitioning Companies With Not More Than Three Million Access Lines
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, a company that is classified as a transitioning company effective January 1, 2006, and that has not...
• Texas Section 65.204 - Reduction Of Switched Access Rates By Newly Designated Transitioning Company
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, a company that is classified as a transitioning company after January 1, 2006, shall reduce both the...
• Texas Section 65.205 - Maintenance Of Reduction Or Parity
  (a) After a deregulated or transitioning company reduces the company's rates under this subchapter, the company may not increase those rates above the applicable rates...

Last modified: September 28, 2016