Texas Business Organizations Code Title 1, Chapter 12 - Administrative Powers

SUBCHAPTER A SECRETARY OF STATE

• Texas Section 12.001 - Authority Of Secretary Of State
  (a) The secretary of state may adopt procedural rules for the filing of instruments, including the filing of instruments by electronic or other means, authorized...
• Texas Section 12.002 - Interrogatories By Secretary Of State
  (a) As necessary and proper for the secretary of state to determine whether a filing entity or a foreign filing entity has complied with this...
• Texas Section 12.003 - Information Disclosed By Interrogatories
  An interrogatory sent by the secretary of state and the answer to the interrogatory are subject to Chapter 552, Government Code. Acts 2003, 78th Leg.,...
• Texas Section 12.004 - Appeals From Secretary Of State
  (a) If the secretary of state does not approve the filing of a filing instrument, the secretary of state shall, before the 11th day after...

SUBCHAPTER B ATTORNEY GENERAL

• Texas Section 12.005 - Fee Waiver For New Veteran-owned Business
  The secretary of state shall waive all fees imposed under Subchapter D, Chapter 4, for an entity that is a new veteran-owned business as defined...
• Texas Section 12.151 - Authority Of Attorney General To Examine Books And Records
  Each filing entity and foreign filing entity shall permit the attorney general to inspect, examine, and make copies, as the attorney general considers necessary in...
• Texas Section 12.152 - Request To Examine
  To examine the business of a filing entity or foreign filing entity, the attorney general shall make a written request to a managerial official, who...
• Texas Section 12.153 - Authority To Examine Management Of Entity
  The attorney general may investigate the organization, conduct, and management of a filing entity or foreign filing entity and determine if the entity has been...
• Texas Section 12.154 - Authority To Disclose Information
  Information held by the attorney general and derived in the course of an examination of an entity's records or documents is not public information, is...
• Texas Section 12.155 - Forfeiture Of Business Privileges
  A foreign filing entity or a filing entity that fails or refuses to permit the attorney general to examine or make copies of a record,...

SUBCHAPTER C ENFORCEMENT LIEN

• Texas Section 12.156 - Criminal Penalty
  (a) A managerial official or other individual having the authority to manage the affairs of a filing entity or foreign filing entity commits an offense...

SUBCHAPTER D ENFORCEMENT PROCEEDINGS

• Texas Section 12.201 - Lien For Law Violations
  (a) If a filing entity or foreign filing entity violates a law of this state, including the law against trusts, monopolies, and conspiracies, or combinations...
• Texas Section 12.251 - Receiver
  In a suit filed by this state against a filing entity or foreign filing entity for the termination of the entity's certificate of formation or...
• Texas Section 12.252 - Foreclosure
  (a) The attorney general may bring suit to foreclose a lien created by this chapter. (b) If a filing entity or a foreign filing entity...
• Texas Section 12.253 - Action Against Insolvent Entity
  When the attorney general is convinced that a filing entity or foreign filing entity is insolvent, the attorney general shall institute quo warranto or other...
• Texas Section 12.254 - Suits By District Or County Attorney
  A district or county attorney shall bring and prosecute a proceeding under Section 12.252 or 12.253 when directed to do so by the attorney general....
• Texas Section 12.255 - Permission To Sue
  Before a petition may be filed by the attorney general or by a district or county attorney in a suit authorized by Section 12.252 or...
• Texas Section 12.256 - Examination And Notice
  (a) The judge of a court in which a proceeding under Section 12.252 or 12.253 is to be filed shall carefully examine the petition before...
• Texas Section 12.257 - Dismissal Of Action
  (a) A suit authorized by Section 12.253 or 12.258 may not be filed or, if filed, shall be dismissed if the entity, through its owners...
• Texas Section 12.258 - Liquidation Of Insolvent Entity
  (a) A court hearing a proceeding under Section 12.253 against an insolvent entity may, after the entity has been shown to be insolvent, appoint one...
• Texas Section 12.259 - Extraordinary Remedies; Bond
  The state has a right to a writ of attachment, garnishment, sequestration, or injunction, without bond, to aid in the enforcement of the state's rights...
• Texas Section 12.260 - Abatement Of Suit
  An action or cause of action for a fine, penalty, or forfeiture that this state has or may have against a filing entity or foreign...
• Texas Section 12.261 - Provisions Cumulative
  Each right or remedy provided by this chapter is cumulative and does not affect any other right or remedy for the enforcement, payment, or collection...

Last modified: September 28, 2016