COMMISSION JURISDICTION
Known as the Public Utility Regulatory Act
The act spans §§ 11–66 (1,170 sections).
Applied in 13 court decisions — leading case Southwestern Electric Power Co. v. Grant (2002)
Most recently applied in Electric Reliability v. Just Energy (January 2023)
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) Except as provided by Section 32.002, the commission has exclusive original jurisdiction over the rates, operations, and services of an electric utility in:
(1) areas outside a municipality; and
(2) areas inside a municipality that surrenders its jurisdiction to the commission under Section 33.002.
(b) The commission has exclusive appellate jurisdiction to review an order or ordinance of a municipality exercising exclusive original jurisdiction under this subtitle.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.