TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

NO. 03-06-00571-CV

City of Garland, Appellant

v.

Public Utility Commission of Texas, Appellee

DIRECT APPEAL FROM THE PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION OF TEXAS

The Public Utility Commission of Texas has filed a Motion to Abate for 120 Days Pending Adoption of Amended Rule. We grant the motion.

This appeal is abated until June 25, 2007. This Court's order staying enforcement of portions of the challenged rule, signed September 29, 2006, and modified by order signed January 12, 2007, will remain in effect during the abatement. The parties may move to lift the abatement or to extend the abatement.

Ordered February 27, 2007.

G. Alan Waldrop, Justice

Before Justices Puryear, Pemberton and Waldrop