Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 621.107 · Subchapter C. MATCHED CONTESTS AND DRAWINGS
PROHIBITED ACTS RELATING TO DRAWINGS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A person engaged in the preparation, promotion, sale, distribution, or use of a drawing may not:
(1) use the term "prize" or a similar term in a false, misleading, or deceptive manner;
(2) fail to provide the prize as represented at the conclusion of the drawing;
(3) represent that a prize has a sponsor, approval, characteristic, ingredient, use, benefit, quantity, status, affiliation, connection, or identity that the prize does not have;
(4) represent that a prize is of a particular standard, quality, grade, style, or model if the prize is of another;
(5) misrepresent the odds of winning a prize; or
(6) misrepresent the rules or terms of participation in the drawing.
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.621.htm
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- 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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