Texas Utilities Code Title 4, Chapter 181 - Miscellaneous Powers And Duties Of Utilities

SUBCHAPTER A POWERS AND DUTIES OF GAS AND ELECTRIC CORPORATIONS

• Texas Section 181.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Corporation" includes: (A) a partnership, limited partnership, or master limited partnership; (B) a combination of business entities composed exclusively of corporations...
• Texas Section 181.002 - Corporate Powers
  A gas or electric corporation has the powers and rights of a corporation organized for profit in this state whenever those powers and duties may...
• Texas Section 181.003 - Authority To Borrow Money, Issue Stock, Or Mortgage Property
  A gas or electric corporation has the right to: (1) borrow money; (2) issue stock, including preferred stock; or (3) mortgage a franchise or other...
• Texas Section 181.004 - Condemnation Of Property
  A gas or electric corporation has the right and power to enter on, condemn, and appropriate the land, right-of-way, easement, or other property of any...
• Texas Section 181.005 - Authority To Lay And Maintain Lines
  (a) A gas corporation has the right to lay and maintain lines over, along, under, and across a public road, an interurban railroad, a street...
• Texas Section 181.006 - Consent Required In Municipality
  A gas corporation may exercise authority under Section 181.005 in relation to a municipal street or alley with the consent of and subject to the...
• Texas Section 181.007 - Authority To Hold Land Or Other Property
  A gas or electric corporation has the power to own, hold, or use land, a right-of-way, an easement, a franchise, or a building or other...
• Texas Section 181.008 - Authority Relating To Transport Or Sale
  (a) A gas or electric corporation has the power to generate, make, manufacture, transport, and sell gas, electric current, and power to an individual, the...

SUBCHAPTER B PROVISIONS APPLYING TO GAS UTILITIES

• Texas Section 181.009 - Discrimination Prohibited
  A gas or electric corporation may not discriminate against a person, corporation, firm, association, or location in: (1) charging for gas, electric current, or power;...
• Texas Section 181.021 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Gas facility" means a pipe, main, conductor, or other facility or fixture used to carry gas. (2) "Gas utility" means a...
• Texas Section 181.022 - Authority To Lay And Maintain Gas Facility
  A gas utility has the right to lay and maintain a gas facility through, under, along, across, or over a public highway, a public road,...
• Texas Section 181.023 - Consent Required In Municipality
  A gas utility may exercise authority under Section 181.022 in a municipality with the consent of and subject to the direction of the governing body...
• Texas Section 181.024 - Notice To State Or County
  (a) A gas utility proposing under this subchapter to locate a gas facility in the right-of-way of a state highway or a county road not...
• Texas Section 181.025 - Relocation Of Gas Facility To Allow Change To Traffic Lane
  (a) The authority of the Texas Transportation Commission under this section is limited to a gas facility on a state highway not in a municipality....

SUBCHAPTER C PROVISIONS APPLYING TO ELECTRIC UTILITIES

• Texas Section 181.026 - Effect Of Municipal Incorporation On Gas Facility Previously Laid
  A gas utility having a gas facility located in an area that becomes incorporated after the facility is in place may continue to exercise in...
• Texas Section 181.041 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Electric utility" means: (A) an electric cooperative organized under Chapter 161; (B) a corporation or river authority, if the river authority...
• Texas Section 181.042 - Authority To Construct, Maintain, And Operate Lines
  An electric utility has the right to construct, maintain, and operate lines over, under, across, on, or along a state highway, a county road, a...
• Texas Section 181.043 - Consent Required In Municipality
  (a) An electric utility may exercise authority under Section 181.042 in a municipality with the consent of and subject to the direction of the governing...
• Texas Section 181.044 - Notice To State Or County
  (a) An electric utility proposing under this subchapter to construct a line along the right-of-way of a state highway or a county road not in...
• Texas Section 181.045 - Standards For Construction, Operation, And Maintenance Of Lines
  (a) A municipal electric utility shall construct, operate, and maintain its transmission lines and distribution lines along highways and at other places in accordance with...
• Texas Section 181.046 - Relocation Of Line To Allow Road Or Ditch Improvement
  (a) The authority of the Texas Transportation Commission under this section is limited to a line on a state highway not in a municipality. The...

SUBCHAPTER D PROVISIONS APPLYING TO TELEGRAPH COMPANIES

• Texas Section 181.047 - Effect Of Municipal Incorporation On Line Previously Constructed
  (a) An electric utility that owns a line on a state highway or county road in a city or town that, at the time of...
• Texas Section 181.061 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "telegraph company" includes a person, firm, corporation, or association engaged in the business of accepting and transmitting messages to and from different...
• Texas Section 181.062 - Telegraph Connections
  A telegraph company engaged in business at the same location or in the same municipality as another telegraph company shall provide: (1) means through which...
• Texas Section 181.063 - Exceptions
  (a) A telegraph company is not required to transfer a message to another line if: (1) the message originated on the company's line; and (2)...
• Texas Section 181.064 - Hearing And Determination
  (a) The governing body of a municipality or, for an unincorporated area, the commissioners court of the county, shall on its own motion or on...
• Texas Section 181.065 - Penalty
  (a) A telegraph company shall comply with an order of a municipality's governing body or a commissioners court requiring the company to arrange for transfer...

SUBCHAPTER E PROVISIONS APPLYING TO TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS

• Texas Section 181.066 - Appeal
  (a) A telegraph company ordered to transfer messages under this subchapter has the right to appeal to the court having jurisdiction over the matter. (b)...
• Texas Section 181.081 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Facility" means a pole, pier, abutment, wire, or other fixture related to a telephone or magnetic telegraph line. (2) "Telegraph corporation"...
• Texas Section 181.082 - Authority To Install Facility In Relation To Public Property
  A telephone or telegraph corporation may install a facility of the corporation along, on, or across a public road, a public street, or public water...
• Texas Section 181.083 - Authority To Construct Line On Private Property
  A telephone or telegraph corporation may enter land in which a private person or a corporation owns a fee or lesser estate to: (1) make...
• Texas Section 181.084 - Appropriation Or Condemnation Of Land
  A telephone or telegraph corporation has the right to: (1) appropriate as much land owned by a private person or a corporation as is necessary...
• Texas Section 181.085 - Prohibition On Land Contract Excluding Another Telegraph Utility
  A telegraph corporation may not contract with an owner of land for the right to construct and maintain a telegraph line over the land to...
• Texas Section 181.086 - Lines In Or Outside State
  A telegraph corporation may construct, own, use, or maintain a telegraph line in or outside this state. Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1,...
• Texas Section 181.087 - Use Of Another's Telegraph Line
  (a) A telegraph corporation may: (1) lease the telegraph line of another telegraph corporation; (2) as the result of a lease or purchase, attach to...
• Texas Section 181.088 - Consolidation Of Utilities
  (a) A telephone or telegraph corporation organized under the law of this state may consolidate or otherwise unite with one or more other companies organized...

SUBCHAPTER F PROVISIONS APPLYING TO COMMUNITY ANTENNA AND CABLE TELEVISION UTILITIES

• Texas Section 181.089 - Municipal Regulation
  (a) The appropriate authorities of a municipality through which a line of a telephone or telegraph corporation is to pass may adopt, by ordinance or...
• Texas Section 181.101 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Equipment" means a line, wire, cable, pipe, conduit, conductor, pole, or other facility for the transmission of community antenna or cable...
• Texas Section 181.102 - Authority To Install And Maintain Equipment
  (a) In an unincorporated area, a person in the business of providing community antenna or cable television service to the public may install and maintain...
• Texas Section 181.103 - Notice To State Or County
  (a) A person proposing to install equipment under Section 181.102 in the right-of-way of a state highway or a county road shall give notice of...

SUBCHAPTER Z MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 181.104 - Relocation Of Equipment To Allow Change To Traffic Lane
  (a) The authority of the Texas Department of Transportation under this section is limited to equipment installed in connection with a state highway. The authority...
• Texas Section 181.901 - Authority Of General-law Municipality To Protect Utility
  (a) The governing body of a general-law municipality may adopt an ordinance that applies to a utility using the streets and public grounds of the...
• Texas Section 181.902 - Authority Of General-law Municipality To Prevent Use Or Waste Of Utility Commodity Or Service
  (a) The governing body of a general-law municipality may adopt an ordinance that prevents the free or unauthorized use or the waste of a commodity...

Last modified: September 28, 2016