Residential gas and electricity use may be exempt from municipal taxes in some cities, and municipal officials must send the ordinance copy to the comptroller.
Sec. 321.105. RESIDENTIAL USE OF GAS AND ELECTRICITY. (a) There are exempted from the taxes imposed by a municipality under this chapter the sale, production, distribution, lease, or rental of, and the use, storage, or other consumption within the municipality of gas and electricity for residential use in any municipality that: (1) adopted the tax on or after October 1, 1979; or (2) adopted the tax before that time but: (A) failed to exempt the residential use of gas and electricity before May 1, 1979; and (B) has not reimposed the tax as provided by Subsection (c). (b) A governing body of a municipality that adopted the taxes under this chapter before October 1, 1979, may, by ordinance adopted by a vote of a majority of the membership of the governing body and recorded in the municipal minutes, exempt from the taxes authorized by this chapter the receipts from the sale, production, distribution, lease, or rental of, and the use, storage, or other consumption of gas and electricity for residential use. (c) A governing body of a municipality that has adopted the taxes authorized by this chapter before May 1, 1979, and in which residential use of gas and electricity is exempted within the municipality, may reimpose the taxes on gas and electricity for residential use by ordinance adopted by a vote of the majority of the membership of the governing body and entered in the municipal minutes. (d) The municipal secretary shall send to the comptroller by United States certified or registered mail a copy of an ordinance exempting or imposing the taxes on residential use of gas and electricity. (e) The exemption or reimposition of taxes on residential use of gas and electricity takes effect within the municipality as provided by Section 321.104(a) after receipt of a copy of the ordinance. Added by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 191, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.