Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 610.001 · Chapter 610. UNAUTHORIZED TRANSACTION CATEGORIZATION
DEFINITIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this chapter:
(1) "Electronic payment transaction" means a transaction in which a person uses a payment card or other payment code or device issued or approved through a payment card network to debit a deposit account or use a line of credit, whether authorization is based on a signature, personal identification number, or other means.
(2) "Firearms code" means any merchant category code approved by the International Organization for Standardization for a firearms retailer, including Merchant Category Code 5723.
(3) "Firearms retailer" means any person or entity engaged in the sale of firearms, ammunition for use in firearms, or firearms accessories.
(4) "Payment card" means a credit card, debit card, check card, or other card that is issued to an authorized user to purchase or obtain goods, services, money, or any other thing of value.
(5) "Payment card issuer" means a lender, including a financial institution, or a merchant that receives applications and issues payment cards to individuals.
(6) "Payment card network" means an entity that directly or through a licensed member, processor, or agent provides the proprietary services, infrastructure, and software that route information and data to conduct debit card or credit card transaction authorization, clearance, and settlement, and that an entity uses in order to accept as a form of payment a brand of debit card, credit card, or other device that may be used to carry out debit or credit transactions.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 514 (H.B. 2837), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2023.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.610.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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