Texas Utilities Code

§ 17.002 — DEFINITIONS

UT § 17.002Title 2. PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATORY ACT · Part A. PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL UTILITIES · Ch. 17. CUSTOMER PROTECTION · Art. A. GENERAL PROVISIONS

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In this chapter:

(1)"Billing agent" means any entity that submits charges to the billing utility on behalf of itself or any provider of a product or service.

(2)"Billing utility" means any telecommunications provider, as defined by Section 51.002, retail electric provider, or electric utility that issues a bill directly to a customer for any telecommunications or electric product or service.

(3)"Certificated telecommunications utility" means a telecommunications utility that has been granted either a certificate of convenience and necessity, a certificate of operating authority, or a service provider certificate of operating authority. (3-a) "Critical care residential customer" means a residential customer who has a person permanently residing in the customer's home who has been diagnosed by a physician as being dependent upon an electric-powered medical device to sustain life. (3-b) "Critical load industrial customer" means an industrial customer for whom an interruption or suspension of electric service will create a dangerous or life-threatening condition on the customer's premises.

(4)"Customer" means any person in whose name telephone or retail electric service is billed, including individuals, governmental units at all levels of government, corporate entities, and any other entity with legal capacity to be billed for telephone or retail electric service.

(5)"Electric utility" has the meaning assigned by Section 31.002.

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Legislative history

Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 426 (S.B. 3), Sec. 8, eff. June 8, 2021.