Texas Utilities Code

§ 52.109 — AVAILABILITY OF SERVICE

UT § 52.109Title 2. PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATORY ACT · Part C. TELECOMMUNICATIONS UTILITIES · Ch. 52. COMMISSION JURISDICTION · Art. C. TELECOMMUNICATIONS UTILITIES THAT ARE NOT DOMINANT CARRIERS

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(a)The commission may require a telecommunications utility that provides a service to make that service available in an exchange served by the telecommunications utility within a reasonable time after receipt of a bona fide request for the service in that exchange.

(b)A telecommunications utility may not be required to extend a service to an area if:

(1)the local exchange company is unable to provide the required access or other service; or

(2)extending the service would, after consideration of the public interest to be served, impose unreasonable costs on or require unreasonable investments by the telecommunications utility.

(c)The commission may require from a telecommunications utility or a local exchange company information necessary to enforce this section.

Legislative history

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