Texas Utilities Code

§ 101.052 — OFFICE POWERS AND DUTIES

UT § 101.052Title 3. GAS REGULATION · Part A. GAS UTILITY REGULATORY ACT · Ch. 101. GENERAL PROVISIONS AND OFFICE OF PUBLIC UTILITY COUNSEL · Art. B. OFFICE OF PUBLIC UTILITY COUNSEL

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(a)The office:

(1)may appear or intervene as a party or otherwise represent residential consumers, as a class, in appeals to the railroad commission only at the written request of an affected municipality's governing body;

(2)may initiate or intervene as a matter of right or otherwise appear in a judicial proceeding that involves an action taken by the railroad commission in a proceeding in which the office was a party;

(3)is entitled to the same access as a party, other than railroad commission staff, to records gathered by the railroad commission under Section 102.203;

(4)is entitled to discovery of any nonprivileged matter that is relevant to the subject matter of a proceeding or petition before the railroad commission;

(5)may represent an individual residential consumer with respect to the consumer's disputed complaint concerning utility services that is unresolved before the railroad commission; and

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Legislative history

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