Texas Penal Code Title 7, Chapter 32 - Fraud
SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Texas Section 32.01 - Definitions
In this chapter: (1) "Financial institution" means a bank, trust company, insurance company, credit union, building and loan association, savings and loan association, investment trust,...
- Texas Section 32.02 - Value
(a) Subject to the additional criteria of Subsections (b) and (c), value under this chapter is: (1) the fair market value of the property or...
SUBCHAPTER B FORGERY
- Texas Section 32.03 - Aggregation Of Amounts Involved In Fraud
When amounts are obtained in violation of this chapter pursuant to one scheme or continuing course of conduct, whether from the same or several sources,...
- Texas Section 32.21 - Forgery
(a) For purposes of this section: (1) "Forge" means: (A) to alter, make, complete, execute, or authenticate any writing so that it purports: (i) to...
- Texas Section 32.22 - Criminal Simulation
(a) A person commits an offense if, with intent to defraud or harm another: (1) he makes or alters an object, in whole or in...
- Texas Section 32.23 - Trademark Counterfeiting
(a) In this section: (1) "Counterfeit mark" means a mark that is identical to or substantially indistinguishable from a protected mark the use or production...
SUBCHAPTER C CREDIT
- Texas Section 32.24 - Stealing Or Receiving Stolen Check Or Similar Sight Order
(a) A person commits an offense if the person steals an unsigned check or similar sight order or, with knowledge that an unsigned check or...
- Texas Section 32.31 - Credit Card Or Debit Card Abuse
(a) For purposes of this section: (1) "Cardholder" means the person named on the face of a credit card or debit card to whom or...
- Texas Section 32.32 - False Statement To Obtain Property Or Credit Or In The Provision Of Certain Services
(a) For purposes of this section, "credit" includes: (1) a loan of money; (2) furnishing property or service on credit; (3) extending the due date...
- Texas Section 32.33 - Hindering Secured Creditors
(a) For purposes of this section: (1) "Remove" means transport, without the effective consent of the secured party, from the state in which the property...
- Texas Section 32.34 - Fraudulent Transfer Of A Motor Vehicle
(a) In this section: (1) "Lease" means the grant of use and possession of a motor vehicle for consideration, whether or not the grant includes...
SUBCHAPTER D OTHER DECEPTIVE PRACTICES
- Texas Section 32.35 - Credit Card Transaction Record Laundering
(a) In this section: (1) "Agent" means a person authorized to act on behalf of another and includes an employee. (2) "Authorized vendor" means a...
- Texas Section 32.41 - Issuance Of Bad Check Or Similar Sight Order
(a) A person commits an offense if he issues or passes a check or similar sight order for the payment of money knowing that the...
- Texas Section 32.42 - Deceptive Business Practices
(a) For purposes of this section: (1) "Adulterated" means varying from the standard of composition or quality prescribed by law or set by established commercial...
- Texas Section 32.43 - Commercial Bribery
(a) For purposes of this section: (1) "Beneficiary" means a person for whom a fiduciary is acting. (2) "Fiduciary" means: (A) an agent or employee;...
- Texas Section 32.44 - Rigging Publicly Exhibited Contest
(a) A person commits an offense if, with intent to affect the outcome (including the score) of a publicly exhibited contest: (1) he offers, confers,...
- Texas Section 32.441 - Illegal Recruitment Of An Athlete
(a) A person commits an offense if, without the consent of the governing body or a designee of the governing body of an institution of...
- Texas Section 32.45 - Misapplication Of Fiduciary Property Or Property Of Financial Institution
(a) For purposes of this section: (1) "Fiduciary" includes: (A) a trustee, guardian, administrator, executor, conservator, and receiver; (B) an attorney in fact or agent...
- Texas Section 32.46 - Securing Execution Of Document By Deception
(a) A person commits an offense if, with intent to defraud or harm any person, he, by deception: (1) causes another to sign or execute...
- Texas Section 32.47 - Fraudulent Destruction, Removal, Or Concealment Of Writing
(a) A person commits an offense if, with intent to defraud or harm another, he destroys, removes, conceals, alters, substitutes, or otherwise impairs the verity,...
- Texas Section 32.48 - Simulating Legal Process
(a) A person commits an offense if the person recklessly causes to be delivered to another any document that simulates a summons, complaint, judgment, or...
- Texas Section 32.49 - Refusal To Execute Release Of Fraudulent Lien Or Claim
(a) A person commits an offense if, with intent to defraud or harm another, the person: (1) owns, holds, or is the beneficiary of a...
- Texas Section 32.50 - Deceptive Preparation And Marketing Of Academic Product
(a) For purposes of this section: (1) "Academic product" means a term paper, thesis, dissertation, essay, report, recording, work of art, or other written, recorded,...
- Texas Section 32.51 - Fraudulent Use Or Possession Of Identifying Information
(a) In this section: (1) "Identifying information" means information that alone or in conjunction with other information identifies a person, including a person's: (A) name...
- Texas Section 32.52 - Fraudulent, Substandard, Or Fictitious Degree
(a) In this section, "fraudulent or substandard degree" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.302, Education Code. (b) A person commits an offense if the...
- Texas Section 32.53 - Exploitation Of Child, Elderly Individual, Or Disabled Individual
(a) In this section: (1) "Child," "elderly individual," and "disabled individual" have the meanings assigned by Section 22.04. (2) "Exploitation" means the illegal or improper...
- Texas Section 32.54 - Fraudulent Or Fictitious Military Record
(a) In this section: (1) "Military record" means an enlistment record, occupation specialty, medal, award, decoration, or certification obtained by a person through the person's...
Last modified: September 28, 2016