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