UTILITIES CODE

CHAPTER 124. SUBMETERING TO MOBILE HOME PARKS AND APARTMENT HOUSES


	§ 124.001.  DEFINITIONS.  In this chapter:                                  
		(1)  "Apartment house" means one or more buildings 
containing more than five dwelling units each of which is rented 
primarily for nontransient use with rent paid at intervals of one 
week or longer.  The term includes a rented or owner-occupied 
residential condominium.
		(2)  "Dwelling unit" means:                                                   
			(A)  one or more rooms that are suitable for 
occupancy as a residence and that contain kitchen and bathroom 
facilities;  or
			(B)  a mobile home in a mobile home park.                                    

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


	§ 124.002.  SUBMETERING.  (a)  The railroad commission 
shall adopt rules under which an owner, operator, or manager of a 
mobile home park or apartment house may purchase natural gas 
through a master meter for delivery to a dwelling unit in the mobile 
home park or apartment house using individual submeters to allocate 
fairly the cost of the gas consumption of each dwelling unit.
	(b)  In addition to other appropriate safeguards for a 
resident of a mobile home park or apartment house, the rules must 
provide that the owner, operator, or manager of the mobile home park 
or apartment house:
		(1)  may not deliver natural gas for sale or resale for 
profit;  and        
		(2)  shall maintain adequate records relating to that 
submetering and make those records available for inspection by the 
resident during reasonable business hours.

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