Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 71.203 · Subchapter E. PENALTIES
CRIMINAL PENALTY: FRAUDULENT FILING.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person may not knowingly or intentionally sign and present for filing or cause to be presented for filing a document authorized or required to be filed under this chapter that:
(1) indicates that the person signing the document has the authority to act on behalf of the entity for which the document is presented and the person does not have that authority;
(2) contains a material false statement; or
(3) is forged.
(b) A person commits an offense if the person violates Subsection (a). An offense under this subsection is punishable as if it were an offense under Section 37.10, Penal Code.
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.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.71.htm
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