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Terms Used In Texas Utilities Code 182.101

  • Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005

In this subchapter:
(1) “Consumer” means a person who obtains electricity or gas from a utility.
(2) “Gas” includes natural gas and artificial gas.
(3) “Meter” means an instrument or machine used to measure and record the use of electricity or gas.
(4) “Test” includes, in reference to the testing of a meter and as necessary to the reading and examination of a meter, the authority to break the seal.
(5) “Utility” means a person, other than a governmental entity, who provides for compensation electricity or gas for consumption in a municipality.