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2025 Texas Statutes
Utilities Code
Title 2 - Public Utility Regulatory Act
Subtitle B - Electric Utilities
Chapter 37 - Certificates of Convenience and Necessity
Subchapter D. Regulation of Services, Areas, and Facilities
Section 37.152. Grounds for Reduction of Service
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TX Util § 37.152 (2025)
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Sec. 37.152. GROUNDS FOR REDUCTION OF SERVICE. (a) Unless the commission issues a certificate that the present and future convenience and necessity will not be adversely affected, a certificate holder may not discontinue, reduce, or impair service to any part of the holder's certificated service area except for:
(1) nonpayment of charges;
(2) nonuse; or
(3) another similar reason that occurs in the usual course of business.
(b) A discontinuance, reduction, or impairment of service must be in compliance with and subject to any condition or restriction the commission prescribes.
Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
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