Texas Business And Commerce Code Title 10, Chapter 303 - Telephone Solicitation For Certain Law Enforcement-related Charitable Organizations

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 303.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Commercial telephone solicitor" means a person whom a law enforcement-related charitable organization retains to make a telephone solicitation, directly or through...
• Texas Section 303.002 - Solicitation Governed By Chapter
  The telephone solicitation of a contribution from a person in this state is considered to be engaging in telephone solicitation in this state regardless of...
• Texas Section 303.003 - Public Access To Certain Documents And Information
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a document required to be filed with the attorney general under this chapter is public information available to...

SUBCHAPTER B REGISTRATION AND BOND REQUIREMENTS

• Texas Section 303.004 - Rules; Procedures; Forms
  The attorney general may adopt rules, procedures, and forms necessary to administer and enforce this chapter. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 885...
• Texas Section 303.051 - Record Of Organizations
  The attorney general shall maintain: (1) a register of law enforcement-related charitable organizations subject to this chapter; and (2) a registry of law enforcement-related charitable...
• Texas Section 303.052 - Form And Content Of Registration Statement
  A registration statement under Section 303.051(2) must be submitted on a form the attorney general prescribes or approves and must contain: (1) for each of...
• Texas Section 303.053 - Initial Registration Statement
  A law enforcement-related charitable organization shall file the organization's initial registration statement before the 10th working day before the date the organization begins telephone solicitation...
• Texas Section 303.054 - Expiration Of Registration; Renewal
  (a) A law enforcement-related charitable organization's registration expires on the 15th day of the fifth month after the last day of the organization's fiscal year....
• Texas Section 303.055 - Filing Fee
  (a) An initial registration statement must be accompanied by a filing fee not to exceed $50. (b) A renewal registration statement must be accompanied by...
• Texas Section 303.056 - Exemption: Volunteer
  A volunteer authorized to solicit on behalf of a law enforcement-related charitable organization is not required to register under this chapter. Added by Acts 2007,...
• Texas Section 303.057 - Registration Does Not Imply Endorsement
  (a) Registration under this chapter does not imply endorsement by this state or the attorney general. (b) A law enforcement-related charitable organization may not state...
• Texas Section 303.058 - Books And Records
  (a) A law enforcement-related charitable organization required to file a registration statement shall maintain books and records of the organization's activities in this state. The...

SUBCHAPTER C SOLICITATION PRACTICES

• Texas Section 303.059 - Bond
  A commercial telephone solicitor shall post with the secretary of state a surety bond that: (1) is in the amount of $50,000; and (2) is...
• Texas Section 303.101 - Deceptive Act Or Practice
  A person may not commit an unfair or deceptive act or practice in making a telephone solicitation for a law enforcement-related charitable organization. Added by...
• Texas Section 303.102 - Representation Of Benefit To Survivors
  A person may not represent to a person solicited that a contribution is to be used to benefit the survivors of a law enforcement officer...
• Texas Section 303.103 - Notice Of Disposition Of Money
  (a) If less than 90 percent of the contributions collected by a law enforcement-related charitable organization or commercial telephone solicitor are paid to a law...

SUBCHAPTER D VIOLATION; REMEDIES

• Texas Section 303.104 - Hours Of Solicitation
  A law enforcement-related charitable organization or commercial telephone solicitor may not make a telephone solicitation call unless the call is made after 9 a.m. and...
• Texas Section 303.151 - Notification Of Noncompliance
  If a law enforcement-related charitable organization does not file a document required by this chapter, files an incomplete or inaccurate document, or otherwise does not...
• Texas Section 303.152 - Violations Relating To Filing Of Documents
  (a) A law enforcement-related charitable organization violates this chapter if the organization: (1) does not file complete documents before the 31st day after the date...
• Texas Section 303.153 - Remedies
  (a) The attorney general may bring an action against a person who violates this chapter to: (1) cancel or suspend the person's registration; (2) obtain...
• Texas Section 303.154 - Venue
  An action under this chapter must be brought in: (1) Travis County; (2) the county in which the law enforcement-related charitable organization has its principal...

Last modified: September 28, 2016