Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 107.001 · Chapter 107. PAY-TO-PARK AND VALET PARKING SERVICES
DEFINITIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this chapter:
(1) "Pay-to-park service" means a business that provides a place to park the motor vehicles of patrons of a public accommodation in a garage, lot, or other facility for a fee.
(2) "Public accommodation" means any:
(A) inn, hotel, or motel;
(B) restaurant, cafeteria, or other facility principally engaged in selling food for consumption on the premises;
(C) bar, nightclub, or other facility engaged in selling alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises;
(D) motion picture house, theater, concert hall, stadium, or other place of exhibition or entertainment; or
(E) other facility used by or open to members of the public.
(3) "Valet parking service" means a parking service through which the motor vehicles of patrons of a public accommodation are parked for a fee by a third party who is not an employee of the public accommodation.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 164 (H.B. 2468), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2011.
Redesignated from Business and Commerce Code, Chapter 106 by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 161 (S.B. 1093), Sec. 22.001(3), eff. September 1, 2013.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.107.htm
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- 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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