Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 58.001 · Chapter 58. DISASTER REMEDIATION CONTRACTS
DEFINITIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this chapter:
(1) "Disaster remediation" means the removal, cleaning, sanitizing, demolition, reconstruction, or other treatment of improvements to real property performed because of damage or destruction to that property caused by a natural disaster.
(2) "Disaster remediation contractor" means a person who engages in disaster remediation for compensation, other than a person who has a permit, license, registration, or other authorization from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for the collection, transportation, treatment, storage, processing, or disposal of solid waste.
(3) "Natural disaster" means the occurrence of widespread or severe damage, injury, or loss of life or property related to any natural cause, including fire, flood, earthquake, wind, storm, or wave action, that results in a disaster declaration by the governor or a local disaster declaration by a county judge under Chapter 418, Government Code.
(4) "Person" means an individual, corporation, trust, partnership, association, or other private legal entity.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 979 (H.B. 1711), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2011.
Redesignated from Business and Commerce Code, Chapter 57 by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 161 (S.B. 1093), Sec. 22.001(2), eff. September 1, 2013.
Amended by:
Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 270 (H.B. 762), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2013.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.58.htm
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