AUTHORIZATION TO ESTABLISH AND REGULATE RATES
Known as the Gas Utility Regulatory Act
The act spans §§ 101–105 (133 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Centerpoint Energy Entex v. Railroad Commission (2006)
Most recently applied in Texas Coast Utilities Coalition v. Railroad Commission (January 2014)
Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, 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.
(a) The railroad commission is vested with all the authority and power of this state to ensure compliance with the obligations of gas utilities in this subtitle.
(b) The regulatory authority may establish and regulate rates of a gas utility and may adopt rules for determining:
(1) the classification of customers and services; and
(2) the applicability of rates.
(c) A rule or order of the regulatory authority may not conflict with a ruling of a federal regulatory body.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.