Section 246.001 - Definitions In this chapter:
(1) "Commission" means the Public Utility Commission of Texas.(2) "Critical facility" means a central office that contains: (A) a switching unit for a telecommunications system that provides service to the general public; and(B) equipment and operating arrangements necessary for terminating and interconnecting: (i) customer lines and trunks; or(3) "Impervious lot coverage regulation" means an ordinance, regulation, rule, or other enactment by a county, municipality, or other authority that limits the development of real property based on the amount of impervious lot coverage to be constructed. The term does not include a flood control regulation.(4) "Regulating authority" means a county, municipality, or other political subdivision of this state that has adopted an impervious lot coverage regulation or a sedimentation, retention, or erosion regulation by ordinance, order, resolution, rule, or other enactment.(5) "Sedimentation, retention, or erosion regulation" means an ordinance, regulation, rule, or other enactment by a county, municipality, or other authority that limits or regulates the development of real property based on the development's effect on water quality resulting from sedimentation, retention, or erosion. The term does not include a:(A) flood control regulation; or(B) requirement for silt fences, vegetative cover, or other similar requirement.(6) "Telecommunications utility" has the meaning assigned by Section 51.002, Utilities Code.Tex. Loc. Gov't. Code § 246.001
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 210, Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/2001.