Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 17.82 · Subchapter F. GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALES
PROHIBITED CONDUCT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person may not conduct a sale advertised with the phrase "going out of business," "closing out," "shutting doors forever," or "bankruptcy sale"; the word "foreclosure" or "bankruptcy"; or a similar phrase or word indicating that an enterprise is ceasing business unless the business is closing all of its operations in a county and in all of the counties immediately adjacent to that county and follows the procedures required by this subchapter.
(b) A person may not fraudulently represent that the person is conducting a going out of business sale.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 172, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.17.htm
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