An electric utility and an electric cooperative shall furnish service, instrumentalities, and facilities that are safe, adequate, efficient, and reasonable.
Tex. Util. Code § 38.001
GENERAL STANDARD
Known as the Public Utility Regulatory Act
The act spans §§ 11–66 (1,170 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Southwestern Electric Power Co. v. Grant (2002)
Most recently applied in Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC v. Giovanni Homes Corporation (April 2014)
Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff
How often courts cite this section
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.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.