Tex. Utilities Code § 60.005: APPLICABILITY TO CERTAIN LARGER INCUMBENT LOCAL EXCHANGE COMPANIES; RULES.

(a) Subchapters B, D, and F may be applied to an incumbent local exchange company that, as of September 1, 1995, has 31,000 or more access lines in this state but fewer than one million access lines in this state only on a bona fide request from a holder of a certificate of operating authority or a service provider certificate of operating authority.

(b) In applying the rules adopted under Subchapters B, D, and F to a company described by Subsection (a), the commission may modify the rules in the public interest.

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