{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-utilities-code-55.042","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Utilities Code § 55.042","heading":"CONTIGUOUS EXCHANGE.","body":"The commission may expand a toll-free local calling area into an exchange that is not in a metropolitan exchange but is in a local calling area that is contiguous to a metropolitan exchange that the commission determines has a community of interest with the exchange for which a petition is filed under this subchapter.\nActs 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.","path":["UTILITIES CODE","TITLE 2. PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATORY ACT","SUBTITLE C. TELECOMMUNICATIONS UTILITIES","CHAPTER 55. REGULATION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES","SUBCHAPTER C. EXPANDED TOLL-FREE LOCAL CALLING AREAS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/UT/htm/UT.55.htm#55.042","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:45Z","sha256":"531f7f7e0b7a7fa4b0f9a1b984268b76b659a9dde1e4843361d58c11a25d9f99","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-utilities-code-55.041","next":"us-tx/tex.-utilities-code-55.043"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}