DEFINITIONS
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Central Maine Power Company v. Devereux Marine, Inc. (2013)
Most recently applied in Central Maine Power Company v. Devereux Marine, Inc. (March 2013)
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
In this chapter:
(1) "High voltage" means more than 600 volts measured between conductors or between a conductor and the ground.
(2) "Overhead line" means a bare or insulated electrical conductor installed above ground but does not include a conductor that is de-energized and grounded or that is enclosed in a rigid metallic conduit.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.