Legal Opinion
Texas Building Owners & Managers Ass'n v. Public Utility Commission
Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)
Decided June 5, 2003No. 03-02-00611-CVPublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
W. KENNETH LAW, Chief Justice.
This case concerns the scope of the Public Utility Commission’s power to enforce the Building Access Statutes (the “Statutes”) of the Public Utility Regulatory Act (PURA). See generally Tex. Util.Code Ann. §§ 54.259-.261 (West 1998). The Statutes require a public or private property owner to give a telecommunications utility access to the property for the purposes of installing a service facility at a tenant’s request. Appellants, consisting of property management organizations and trade groups (collectively, “the Building Owners”), sued the Commission in…
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