Texas Utilities Code 103.053 – Appeal by Ratepayers Outside Municipality
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(a) The ratepayers of a municipally owned utility who are outside the municipality may appeal to the railroad commission an action of the municipality’s governing body affecting the municipally owned utility’s rates by filing with the railroad commission a petition for review signed by a number of ratepayers served by the utility outside the municipality equal to at least the lesser of 10,000 or five percent of those ratepayers.
(b) A petition for review is properly signed if signed by a person or the spouse of a person in whose name residential utility service is carried.
Terms Used In Texas Utilities Code 103.053
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
- Signed: includes any symbol executed or adopted by a person with present intention to authenticate a writing. See Texas Government Code 311.005
(c) For purposes of this section, each person who receives a separate bill is a ratepayer. A person who receives more than one bill may not be counted as more than one ratepayer.