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TX Util § 104.201 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Utilities Code|Title 3 - Gas Regulation|Subtitle A - Gas Utility Regulatory Act|Chapter 104 - Rates and Services|Subchapter E. Rates for Governmental Entities|Section 104.201. Transportation Rates Between Gas Utility or Municipally Owned Utility and State Agency

Sec. 104.201.  TRANSPORTATION RATES BETWEEN GAS UTILITY OR MUNICIPALLY OWNED UTILITY AND STATE AGENCY.  (a)  Notwithstanding Section 104.003(b), absent a contract for transportation service between a state agency and a gas utility or municipally owned utility, the railroad commission, not later than the 210th day after the date either party files a request to set a transportation rate, shall establish the transportation rate for the state agency.  The commission has exclusive original jurisdiction to establish a transportation rate for a state agency under this section.(b)  The railroad commission shall base its determination of the transportation rate under Subsection (a) on the cost of providing the transportation service for both the distribution system and the transmission system, as applicable, of the gas utility or municipally owned utility.(c)  The railroad commission may order temporary rates under Subsection (a) as provided for under the commission's appellate jurisdiction.|Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.|
TX Util § 104.202 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Utilities Code|Title 3 - Gas Regulation|Subtitle A - Gas Utility Regulatory Act|Chapter 104 - Rates and Services|Subchapter E. Rates for Governmental Entities|Section 104.202. Excluded Expenses

Sec. 104.202.  EXCLUDED EXPENSES.  (a)  The rates that a gas utility or municipally owned utility charges a state agency may not include an amount representing a gross receipts assessment, regulatory assessment, or similar expense of the utility.(b)  An expense under Subsection (a) that is reasonable and is not recovered from a state agency under this section may be recovered from other customers of the gas utility or municipally owned utility.(c)  A gross receipts assessment, regulatory assessment, or similar expense of the utility does not include a payment to a municipality under a contract, franchise, or other agreement.|Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.  Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1326, Sec. 1, eff. June 18, 1999.|
TX Util § 104.203 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Utilities Code|Title 3 - Gas Regulation|Subtitle A - Gas Utility Regulatory Act|Chapter 104 - Rates and Services|Subchapter E. Rates for Governmental Entities|Section 104.203. Payment in Lieu of Tax

Sec. 104.203.  PAYMENT IN LIEU OF TAX.  (a)  A payment made in lieu of a tax by a municipally owned utility to the municipality by which the utility is owned may not be considered an expense of operation in establishing the utility's rate for providing utility service to a school district or hospital district.(b)  A rate a municipally owned utility receives from a school district or hospital district may not be used to make or to cover the cost of making payments in lieu of taxes to the municipality that owns the utility.|Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.|
TX Util § 104.251 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Utilities Code|Title 3 - Gas Regulation|Subtitle A - Gas Utility Regulatory Act|Chapter 104 - Rates and Services|Subchapter F. Services|Section 104.251. General Standard

Sec. 104.251.  GENERAL STANDARD.  A gas utility shall furnish service, instrumentalities, and facilities that are safe, adequate, efficient, and reasonable.|Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.|
TX Util § 104.252 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Utilities Code|Title 3 - Gas Regulation|Subtitle A - Gas Utility Regulatory Act|Chapter 104 - Rates and Services|Subchapter F. Services|Section 104.252. Authority of Regulatory Authority Concerning Standards

Sec. 104.252.  AUTHORITY OF REGULATORY AUTHORITY CONCERNING STANDARDS.  A regulatory authority, on its own motion or on complaint and after reasonable notice and hearing, may:(1)  adopt just and reasonable standards, classifications, regulations, or practices a gas utility must follow in furnishing a service;(2)  adopt adequate and reasonable standards for measuring a condition, including quantity, quality, and pressure relating to the furnishing of a service;(3)  adopt reasonable regulations for examining, testing, and measuring a service;  and(4)  adopt or approve reasonable rules, regulations, specifications, and standards to ensure the accuracy of equipment, including meters and instruments, used to measure a service.|Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.|
TX Util § 104.253 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Utilities Code|Title 3 - Gas Regulation|Subtitle A - Gas Utility Regulatory Act|Chapter 104 - Rates and Services|Subchapter F. Services|Section 104.253. Rule or Standard

Sec. 104.253.  RULE OR STANDARD.  (a)  A gas utility may file with the regulatory authority a standard, classification, regulation, or practice the utility follows.(b)  The standard, classification, regulation, or practice continues in force until:(1)  amended by the utility;  or(2)  changed by the regulatory authority as provided by this subtitle.|Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.|
TX Util § 104.254 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Utilities Code|Title 3 - Gas Regulation|Subtitle A - Gas Utility Regulatory Act|Chapter 104 - Rates and Services|Subchapter F. Services|Section 104.254. Service

Sec. 104.254.  SERVICE.  A gas utility or municipally owned utility may not refuse to provide service to a state agency if pipeline capacity is available on an existing facility of the utility.|Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.|
TX Util § 104.2545 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Utilities Code|Title 3 - Gas Regulation|Subtitle A - Gas Utility Regulatory Act|Chapter 104 - Rates and Services|Subchapter F. Services|Section 104.2545. Required Service to Public Retail Customer

Sec. 104.2545.  REQUIRED SERVICE TO PUBLIC RETAIL CUSTOMER.  (a)  In this section, "service site" means facilities or buildings operated by a public retail customer or a group of adjacent facilities or buildings operated by a public retail customer within one contiguous geographical area.(b)  Unless the utility is prohibited by other law from providing the service and if sufficient pipeline capacity is available on an existing facility of the utility to provide the service, a gas utility or municipally owned utility may not refuse to provide service to a public retail customer at a service site, at rates established as provided by Subsection (c), the following services:(1)  the sale of gas;(2)  the transportation of an annual average of 25 million British thermal units or more each day of gas that is:(A)  taken as a royalty in kind;  and(B)  owned by the state or managed by a marketing program operated by the state or by a state agency;  or(3)  a combination of the services described by Subdivisions (1) and (2).(c)  A utility shall provide a service described by Subsection (b) at rates provided by a written contract negotiated between the utility and the state or a state agency.  If the utility and the state or state agency are not able to agree to a contract rate, a fair and reasonable rate may be determined for the public retail customer, as a rate for a separate class of service, by the railroad commission or, for municipally owned gas utilities, by the relevant regulatory body under this chapter.(d)  In this section, "public retail customer" has the meaning assigned by Section 101.009.|Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 300, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.  Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 563, Sec. 1, eff. June 20, 2003.Amended by: Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 53 (H.B. 2263), Sec. 6, eff. May 17, 2019.|
TX Util § 104.255 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Utilities Code|Title 3 - Gas Regulation|Subtitle A - Gas Utility Regulatory Act|Chapter 104 - Rates and Services|Subchapter F. Services|Section 104.255. Billing

Sec. 104.255.  BILLING.  (a)  A gas utility or municipally owned utility may not bill or otherwise require the state or a state agency or institution to pay for service before the service is provided.(b)  The railroad commission shall adopt rules concerning payment of bills by the state or a state agency to a gas utility or municipally owned utility.  The rules must be consistent with Chapter 2251, Government Code.(c)  This subtitle does not prohibit a gas utility or municipally owned utility from entering into an agreement with the state or a state agency to establish a level or average monthly service billing plan.  An agreement under this subsection must require reconciliation of the leveled or equalized bills quarterly.|Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.|
TX Util § 104.2551 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Utilities Code|Title 3 - Gas Regulation|Subtitle A - Gas Utility Regulatory Act|Chapter 104 - Rates and Services|Subchapter F. Services|Section 104.2551. Electronic Billing

Sec. 104.2551.  ELECTRONIC BILLING.  A gas utility or municipally owned utility may transmit the utility's bill for services through the Internet or by other electronic means instead of through the United States mail on the request of a customer of the gas utility or municipally owned utility.|Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1233, Sec. 68, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.|
TX Util § 104.256 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Utilities Code|Title 3 - Gas Regulation|Subtitle A - Gas Utility Regulatory Act|Chapter 104 - Rates and Services|Subchapter F. Services|Section 104.256. Examination and Test of Instrument or Equipment; Inspection

Sec. 104.256.  EXAMINATION AND TEST OF INSTRUMENT OR EQUIPMENT;  INSPECTION.  (a)  A regulatory authority may:(1)  examine and test equipment, including meters and instruments, used to measure service of a gas utility;  and(2)  set up and use on the premises occupied by a gas utility an apparatus or appliance necessary for the examination or test.(b)  The gas utility is entitled to be represented at an examination, test, or inspection made under this section.(c)  The gas utility and its officers and employees shall facilitate the examination, test, or inspection by giving reasonable aid to the regulatory authority and to any person designated by the regulatory authority for the performance of those duties.|Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.|
TX Util § 104.257 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Utilities Code|Title 3 - Gas Regulation|Subtitle A - Gas Utility Regulatory Act|Chapter 104 - Rates and Services|Subchapter F. Services|Section 104.257. Inspection for Consumer

Sec. 104.257.  INSPECTION FOR CONSUMER.  (a)  A consumer may have a meter or other measuring device tested by a gas utility:(1)  once without charge, after a reasonable period of presumed accuracy that the regulatory authority establishes by rule;  and(2)  at a shorter interval on payment of a reasonable fee established by the regulatory authority.(b)  The regulatory authority shall establish reasonable fees to be paid for other examining or testing of a measuring device on the request of a consumer.(c)  If the consumer requests the test under Subsection (a)(2) and the measuring device is found unreasonably defective or incorrect to the substantial disadvantage of the consumer, the fee the consumer paid at the time of the request shall be refunded.|Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.|
TX Util § 104.258 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Utilities Code|Title 3 - Gas Regulation|Subtitle A - Gas Utility Regulatory Act|Chapter 104 - Rates and Services|Subchapter F. Services|Section 104.258. Disconnection of Gas Service

Sec. 104.258.  DISCONNECTION OF GAS SERVICE.  (a)  In this section:(1)  "Extreme weather emergency" means a period during which the previous day's highest temperature did not exceed 32 degrees Fahrenheit and the temperature is predicted to remain at or below that level for the next 24 hours according to the nearest National Weather Service reports.(2)  "Provider" means:(A)  a gas utility, as defined by Sections 101.003 and 121.001;  and(B)  an owner, operator, or manager of a mobile home park or apartment who purchases natural gas through a master meter for delivery to a dwelling unit in a mobile home park or apartment house under Chapter 124.(b)  A provider may not disconnect natural gas service to a residential customer on a weekend day unless personnel of the provider are available on that day to take payments and reconnect service.(c)  A provider may not disconnect natural gas service to a residential customer during an extreme weather emergency.  The provider shall defer collection of the full payment of bills that are due during an extreme weather emergency until after the emergency is over and shall work with customers to establish a pay schedule for deferred bills.|Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.|
TX Util § 104.351 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Utilities Code|Title 3 - Gas Regulation|Subtitle A - Gas Utility Regulatory Act|Chapter 104 - Rates and Services|Subchapter H. Protection Against Utility Service Disconnection|Section 104.351. Definitions

Sec. 104.351.  DEFINITIONS.  In this subchapter:(1)  "Customer" means any person in whose name gas utility service is billed, including individuals, governmental units at all levels of government, corporate entities, and any other entity with legal capacity to be billed for gas service.(2)  "Gas utility" has the meaning assigned by Section 181.021 but does not include a municipally owned utility or gas utility owned by an electric cooperative.(3)  "Nonsubmetered master metered multifamily property" means an apartment, a leased or owner-occupied condominium, or one or more buildings containing at least 10 dwellings that receive gas utility service that is master metered but not submetered.|Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 322 (H.B. 1772), Sec. 3, eff. January 1, 2014.|
TX Util § 104.352 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Utilities Code|Title 3 - Gas Regulation|Subtitle A - Gas Utility Regulatory Act|Chapter 104 - Rates and Services|Subchapter H. Protection Against Utility Service Disconnection|Section 104.352. Notice of Disconnection to Municipalities for Nonsubmetered Master Metered Multifamily Properties

Sec. 104.352.  NOTICE OF DISCONNECTION TO MUNICIPALITIES FOR NONSUBMETERED MASTER METERED MULTIFAMILY PROPERTIES.  (a) A gas utility shall send a written notice of service disconnection to a municipality before the gas utility disconnects service to a nonsubmetered master metered multifamily property for nonpayment if:(1)  the property is located in the municipality; and(2)  the municipality establishes an authorized representative to receive the notice as described by Section 104.353(c).(b)  The gas utility shall send the notice required by this section not later than the 10th day before the date gas utility service is scheduled for disconnection.|Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 322 (H.B. 1772), Sec. 3, eff. January 1, 2014.|
TX Util § 104.353 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Utilities Code|Title 3 - Gas Regulation|Subtitle A - Gas Utility Regulatory Act|Chapter 104 - Rates and Services|Subchapter H. Protection Against Utility Service Disconnection|Section 104.353. Additional Safeguards

Sec. 104.353.  ADDITIONAL SAFEGUARDS.  (a)  The customer safeguards provided by this subchapter are in addition to safeguards provided by other law or agency rules.(b)  This subchapter does not prohibit a municipality or the regulatory authority from adopting customer safeguards that exceed the safeguards provided by this chapter.(c)  The regulatory authority by rule shall develop a mechanism by which a municipality may provide the regulatory authority with the contact information of the municipality's authorized representative to whom the notice required by Section 104.352 must be sent.  The regulatory authority shall make the contact information available to the public.|Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 322 (H.B. 1772), Sec. 3, eff. January 1, 2014.|
TX Util § 104.361 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Utilities Code|Title 3 - Gas Regulation|Subtitle A - Gas Utility Regulatory Act|Chapter 104 - Rates and Services|Subchapter I. Customer Rate Relief Bonds|Section 104.361. Purpose; Railroad Commission Duty

Sec. 104.361.  PURPOSE; RAILROAD COMMISSION DUTY.  (a)  The purpose of this subchapter is to reduce the cost that customers would otherwise experience because of extraordinary costs that gas utilities incurred to secure gas supply and provide service during Winter Storm Uri, and to restore gas utility systems after that event, by providing securitization financing for gas utilities to recover those costs.  The securitization financing mechanism authorized by this subchapter will:(1)  provide rate relief to customers by extending the period during which the costs described by this subsection are recovered from customers; and(2)  support the financial strength and stability of gas utility companies.(b)  The railroad commission shall ensure that securitization provides tangible and quantifiable benefits to customers, greater than would have been achieved absent the issuance of customer rate relief bonds.|Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 805 (H.B. 1520), Sec. 5, eff. June 16, 2021.|
TX Util § 104.363 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Utilities Code|Title 3 - Gas Regulation|Subtitle A - Gas Utility Regulatory Act|Chapter 104 - Rates and Services|Subchapter I. Customer Rate Relief Bonds|Section 104.363. Extraordinary Costs

Sec. 104.363.  EXTRAORDINARY COSTS.  For the purposes of this subchapter, extraordinary costs are the reasonable and necessary costs related to Winter Storm Uri, including carrying costs, placed in a regulatory asset and approved by the railroad commission in a regulatory asset determination under Section 104.365.|Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 805 (H.B. 1520), Sec. 5, eff. June 16, 2021.|
TX Util § 104.364 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Utilities Code|Title 3 - Gas Regulation|Subtitle A - Gas Utility Regulatory Act|Chapter 104 - Rates and Services|Subchapter I. Customer Rate Relief Bonds|Section 104.364. Jurisdiction and Powers of Railroad Commission and Other Regulatory Authorities

Sec. 104.364.  JURISDICTION AND POWERS OF RAILROAD COMMISSION AND OTHER REGULATORY AUTHORITIES.  (a)  The railroad commission may authorize the issuance of customer rate relief bonds if the requirements of Section 104.366 are met.(b)  The railroad commission may assess to a gas utility costs associated with administering this subchapter.  Assessments must be recovered from rate-regulated customers as part of gas cost.(c)  The railroad commission has exclusive, original jurisdiction to issue financing orders that authorize the creation of customer rate relief property.  Customer rate relief property must be created and vested in an issuing financing entity and does not constitute property of the railroad commission or any gas utility.(d)  Except as provided by Subsection (c), this subchapter does not limit or impair a regulatory authority's plenary jurisdiction over the rates, charges, and services rendered by gas utilities in this state under Chapter 102.|Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 805 (H.B. 1520), Sec. 5, eff. June 16, 2021.|
TX Util § 104.367 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Utilities Code|Title 3 - Gas Regulation|Subtitle A - Gas Utility Regulatory Act|Chapter 104 - Rates and Services|Subchapter I. Customer Rate Relief Bonds|Section 104.367. Property Rights

Sec. 104.367.  PROPERTY RIGHTS.  (a)  Customer rate relief bonds are the limited obligation solely of the issuing financing entity and are not a debt of a gas utility or a debt or a pledge of the faith and credit of this state or any political subdivision of this state.(b)  Customer rate relief bonds are nonrecourse to the credit or any assets of this state or the authority.  A trust fund created in connection with the issuance of customer rate relief bonds is not subject to Subtitle B, Title 9, Property Code.(c)  The rights and interests of an issuing financing entity or the successor under a financing order, including the right to receive customer rate relief charges authorized in the financing order, are only contract rights until pledged in connection with the issuance of the customer rate relief bonds, at which time the rights and interests become customer rate relief property.(d)  Customer rate relief property created under a financing order is vested ab initio in the issuing financing entity.  Customer rate relief property constitutes a present property right for purposes of contracts concerning the sale or pledge of property, notwithstanding that the imposition and collection of customer rate relief charges depends on further  acts of the gas utility or others that have not yet occurred.  The financing order remains in effect, and the customer rate relief property continues to exist, for the same period as the pledge of the state described by Section 104.374.(e)  All revenue and collections resulting from customer rate relief charges constitute proceeds only of a property right arising from the financing order.(f)  An amount owed by an issuing financing entity under an ancillary agreement or a credit agreement is payable from and secured by a pledge and interest in the customer rate relief property to the extent provided in the documents evidencing the ancillary agreement or credit agreement.|Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 805 (H.B. 1520), Sec. 5, eff. June 16, 2021.|
TX Util § 104.368 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Utilities Code|Title 3 - Gas Regulation|Subtitle A - Gas Utility Regulatory Act|Chapter 104 - Rates and Services|Subchapter I. Customer Rate Relief Bonds|Section 104.368. Property Interest Not Subject to Setoff, Counterclaim, Surcharge, or Defense

Sec. 104.368.  PROPERTY INTEREST NOT SUBJECT TO SETOFF, COUNTERCLAIM, SURCHARGE, OR DEFENSE.  The interest of an issuing financing entity or pledgee in customer rate relief property, including the revenue and collections arising from customer rate relief charges, is not subject to setoff, counterclaim, surcharge, or defense by the gas utility or any other person or in connection with the bankruptcy of the gas utility, the authority, or any other entity.  A financing order remains in effect and unabated notwithstanding the bankruptcy of the gas utility, the authority, an issuing financing entity, or any successor or assignee of the gas utility, authority, or issuing financing entity.|Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 805 (H.B. 1520), Sec. 5, eff. June 16, 2021.|
TX Util § 104.369 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Utilities Code|Title 3 - Gas Regulation|Subtitle A - Gas Utility Regulatory Act|Chapter 104 - Rates and Services|Subchapter I. Customer Rate Relief Bonds|Section 104.369. Customer Rate Relief Charges Nonbypassable

Sec. 104.369.  CUSTOMER RATE RELIEF CHARGES NONBYPASSABLE.  A financing order must include terms ensuring that the imposition and collection of the customer rate relief charges authorized in the order are nonbypassable.|Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 805 (H.B. 1520), Sec. 5, eff. June 16, 2021.|