Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 251.001 · Chapter 251. WAREHOUSE RECEIPTS
DEFINITIONS.
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this chapter:
(1) "Goods" means all things treated as movable for purposes of a contract of storage or transportation.
(2) "Issue" includes aiding in the issuance of a warehouse receipt.
(3) "Warehouse receipt" means a receipt issued by a warehouseman.
(4) "Warehouseman" means a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire. The term includes an officer, agent, or employee of a warehouseman.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 885 (H.B. 2278), Sec. 2.01, eff. April 1, 2009.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.251.htm
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- sha256 7bfd5245f66600b40f675e4ef563af89be6514b0d3696ccf23c19204aaae97f0
- 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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