Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 52.152 · Subchapter D. ENFORCEMENT
PRIVATE CAUSE OF ACTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) This section applies only to a customer who is injured by an invention developer's:
(1) violation of this chapter;
(2) false or fraudulent statement, representation, or omission of material fact; or
(3) failure to make all disclosures required by this chapter.
(b) A customer to whom this section applies may recover in a civil action against the invention developer:
(1) the greater of:
(A) the amount of any actual damages sustained by the customer; or
(B) $1,000;
(2) court costs; and
(3) attorney's fees.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended 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.52.htm
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- 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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