Tex. Agric. Code § 12.028 · Chapter 12. POWERS AND DUTIES
COMPETITIVE BIDDING OR ADVERTISING.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The department may not adopt rules restricting competitive bidding or advertising by a person regulated by the department except to prohibit false, misleading, or deceptive practices by the person.
(b) The department may not include in its rules to prohibit false, misleading, or deceptive practices by a person regulated by the department a rule that:
(1) restricts the use of any medium for advertising;
(2) restricts the person's personal appearance or use of the person's voice in an advertisement;
(3) relates to the size or duration of an advertisement by the person; or
(4) restricts the person's advertisement under a trade name.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 230, Sec. 17, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/AG/htm/AG.12.htm
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- sha256 36c7a95ee0d63809c95b35ce395db83de47ba40d479dd1ce195ef873695039e4
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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