Sec. 261.001. DEFINITIONS. (a) In this chapter:

(1) "Utility" means a person engaged in this state in:

(A) generating, transmitting, or distributing and selling electric power;

(B) transporting, distributing, and selling, through a local distribution system, natural or other gas for domestic, commercial, industrial, or other use;

(C) owning or operating a pipeline to transmit or sell natural or other gas, natural gas liquids, crude oil, or petroleum products to another pipeline company or to a refinery, local distribution system, municipality, or industrial consumer;

(D) providing telephone or telegraph service to others;

(E) producing, transmitting, or distributing and selling steam or water;

(F) operating a railroad; or

(G) providing sewer service to others.

(2) "Utility security instrument" means:

(A) a mortgage, deed of trust, security agreement, or other instrument executed to secure payment of a bond, note, or other obligation of a utility; or

(B) an instrument that supplements or amends an instrument described by Paragraph (A), including a signed copy of the instrument.

(b) The definitions in Chapters 1 and 9 apply to this chapter.

Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 885 (H.B. 2278), Sec. 2.01, eff. April 1, 2009.