Sec. 181.041.  DEFINITIONS.  In this subchapter:
(1)  "Electric utility" means:
(A)  an electric cooperative organized under Chapter 161;
(B)  a corporation or river authority, if the river authority is created by a statute of this state:
(i)  that generates, transmits, or distributes electric energy in this state;  and
(ii)  whose operations are subject to the judicial and legislative processes of this state;  or
(C)  a municipal electric utility.
(2)  "Municipal electric utility" means a municipality in this state that owns and operates an electric generating plant or that operates electric transmission lines or an electric distribution system.
(3)  "Distribution line" means a power line operated below 60,000 volts when measured phase to phase.
(4)  "Transmission line" means a power line operated at 60,000 volts or more when measured phase to phase.
Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Amended by: 
Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 77 (S.B. 349), Sec. 1, eff. May 18, 2013.