{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-utilities-code-55.044","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Utilities Code § 55.044","heading":"EXEMPTION.","body":"(a) The commission may not require an incumbent local exchange company serving the petitioning or requested exchange to expand the company's toll-free local calling area under this subchapter if:\n(1) the incumbent local exchange company has fewer than 10,000 access lines;\n(2) the petitioning or requested exchange is served by a telephone cooperative corporation;\n(3) extended area service or extended metropolitan service is available between the exchanges;\n(4) the petitioning or requested exchange is a metropolitan exchange; or\n(5) the commission determines that the company has shown that to serve the area is not geographically or technologically feasible.\n(b) To promote the wide dispersion of pay telephones, the commission may:\n(1) exempt pay telephones from this subchapter; or\n(2) change the rates charged for calls from pay telephones.\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#55.044","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:45Z","sha256":"acb99c3812b8b39c83106ef23fbf179eeda061b7e7d3a51d4df668a03e3d4089","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-utilities-code-55.043","next":"us-tx/tex.-utilities-code-55.045"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}