1. (a) Subchapters B, C, and H may be applied to an incumbent local exchange company that serves fewer than 31,000 access lines only on a bona fide request from a certificated telecommunications utility.
2. (b) In applying the rules adopted under Subchapters B, C, and H to a company described by Subsection (a), the commission may modify the rules in the public interest.
3. (c) This section takes effect September 1, 1998.

Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.