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Tex. Util. Code § 53.306

COMMISSION REVIEW OF PROPOSED CHANGE

Known as the Public Utility Regulatory Act

The act spans §§ 11–66 (1,170 sections).

Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff

(a) The commission shall review a proposed change filed under this subchapter if:

(1) the commission receives complaints relating to the proposed change signed by a number of affected local service customers equal at least to the lesser of 1,500 or five percent of those customers;

(2) the commission receives a complaint relating to the proposed change from an affected intrastate access customer, or a group of affected intrastate access customers, that in the preceding 12 months accounted for more than 10 percent of the company's total intrastate gross access revenues;

(3) the proposed change is not a minor change;

(4) the company does not comply with the procedural requirements of this subchapter; or

(5) the proposed change is inconsistent with the commission's substantive policies as expressed in its rules.

(b) The commission may suspend a tariff proposed under this subchapter during the review.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.