Texas Business Organizations Code Title 6, Chapter 252 - Unincorporated Nonprofit Associations

• Texas Section 252.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Member" means a person who, under the rules or practices of a nonprofit association, may participate in the selection of persons...
• Texas Section 252.002 - Supplementary General Principles Of Law And Equity
  Principles of law and equity supplement this chapter unless displaced by a particular provision of this chapter. Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 182, Sec. 1,...
• Texas Section 252.003 - Territorial Application
  Real and personal property in this state may be acquired, held, encumbered, and transferred by a nonprofit association, regardless of whether the nonprofit association or...
• Texas Section 252.004 - Real And Personal Property; Nonprofit Association As Beneficiary
  (a) A nonprofit association in its name may acquire, hold, encumber, or transfer an estate or interest in real or personal property. (b) A nonprofit...
• Texas Section 252.005 - Statement Of Authority As To Real Property
  (a) A nonprofit association may execute and record a statement of authority to transfer an estate or interest in real property in the name of...
• Texas Section 252.006 - Liability In Tort And Contract
  (a) A nonprofit association is a legal entity separate from its members for the purposes of determining and enforcing rights, duties, and liabilities in contract...
• Texas Section 252.007 - Capacity To Assert And Defend; Standing
  (a) A nonprofit association, in its name, may institute, defend, intervene, or participate in a judicial, administrative, or other governmental proceeding or in an arbitration,...
• Texas Section 252.008 - Effect Of Judgment Or Order
  A judgment or order against a nonprofit association is not by itself a judgment or order against a member or a person considered as a...
• Texas Section 252.009 - Disposition Of Personal Property Of Inactive Nonprofit Association
  (a) If a nonprofit association has been inactive for three years or longer, or a shorter period as specified in a document of the nonprofit...
• Texas Section 252.010 - Books And Records
  (a) A nonprofit association shall keep correct and complete books and records of account for at least three years after the end of each fiscal...
• Texas Section 252.011 - Appointment Of Agent To Receive Service Of Process
  (a) A nonprofit association may file in the office of the secretary of state a statement appointing an agent authorized to receive service of process....
• Texas Section 252.012 - Claim Not Abated By Change
  A claim for relief against a nonprofit association does not abate merely because of a change in the members or persons authorized to manage the...
• Texas Section 252.013 - Summons And Complaint; Service
  (a) In an action or proceeding against a nonprofit association, a summons and complaint must be served on an agent authorized by appointment to receive...
• Texas Section 252.014 - Uniformity Of Application And Construction
  This chapter shall be applied and construed to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this chapter among states enacting it. Acts...
• Texas Section 252.015 - Transition Concerning Real And Personal Property
  If, before September 1, 1995, an estate or interest in real or personal property was by the terms of the transfer purportedly transferred to a...
• Texas Section 252.016 - Effect On Other Law
  This chapter replaces existing law with respect to matters covered by this chapter but does not affect other law covering unincorporated nonprofit associations. Acts 2003,...
• Texas Section 252.017 - Chapter Controlling
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the only provisions of this code that apply to or govern a nonprofit association are the provisions of...

Last modified: September 28, 2016