Sec. 40.057. BILLING. (a) A municipally owned utility that opts for customer choice may continue to bill directly electric customers located in its certificated retail service area, as that area exists on the date of adoption of customer choice, for all transmission and distribution services. The municipally owned utility may also bill directly for generation services and customer services provided by the municipally owned utility to those customers.
(b) A municipally owned utility that opts for customer choice may not adopt anticompetitive billing practices that would discourage customers in its service area from choosing a retail electric provider.
(c) A customer that is being provided wires service by a municipally owned utility at distribution or transmission voltage and that is served by a retail electric provider for retail service has the option of being billed directly by each service provider or to receive a single bill for distribution, transmission, and generation services from the municipally owned utility.
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 405, Sec. 39, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Structure Texas Statutes
Title 2 - Public Utility Regulatory Act
Subtitle B - Electric Utilities
Chapter 40 - Competition for Municipally Owned Utilities and River Authorities
Subchapter B. Municipally Owned Utility Choice
Section 40.051. Governing Body Decision
Section 40.052. Utility Not Offering Customer Choice
Section 40.053. Retail Customer's Right of Choice
Section 40.054. Service Outside Area
Section 40.055. Jurisdiction of Municipal Governing Body
Section 40.056. Anticompetitive Actions
Section 40.058. Tariffs for Open Access
Section 40.059. Municipal Power Agency; Recovery of Stranded Costs