SECTION 7.6002. Procedure for Filing and Service of an Appeal, Obligation of City to Respond, and Intervention

(a) A pipeline shall file an appeal under this subchapter in writing no later than one year after the pipeline receives the invoice for or a similar written notice of the charge being appealed.

(b) The pipeline shall file the appeal with the director, who shall assign a docket number. Thereafter, all documents relating to the appeal shall include the assigned docket number and shall be filed in the Docket Services Section.

(c) The pipeline shall mail or deliver a copy of the appeal to the city attorney, the city secretary, or any other city official authorized to receive service of process in civil proceedings within 5 days of the date the pipeline files the appeal at the Commission.

(d) The city shall have 90 days from the date it receives a copy of the company's appeal to the Commission to file its response to the appeal, in writing, at the Commission. The city shall simultaneously serve a copy of the response on the pipeline.

(e) The examiners may require the city to mail notice of the appeal to each pipeline identified in the city's response, at the address stated in the response, stating that the pipeline may intervene in the appeal.

(f) Another pipeline with a pipeline facility within public right-of-way in the city may file a motion to intervene in the appeal within 30 days after any notice of the appeal is mailed to the pipelines pursuant to subsection (e) of this section.

Source Note: The provisions of this §7.6002 adopted to be effective March 15, 2007, 32 TexReg 1275; amended to be effective May 14, 2018, 43 TexReg 2997