Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 2.010 · Subchapter A. PURPOSES OF DOMESTIC ENTITY
PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES OF NONPROFIT CORPORATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A nonprofit corporation may not be organized or registered under this code to conduct its affairs in this state to:
(1) engage in or operate as a group hospital service, rural credit union, agricultural and livestock pool, mutual loan corporation, cooperative association under Chapter 251, cooperative credit association, farmers' cooperative society, Co-operative Marketing Act corporation, rural electric cooperative corporation, telephone cooperative corporation, or fraternal organization operating under the lodge system and incorporated under Subchapter C, Chapter 23;
(2) engage in water supply or sewer service except as an entity incorporated under Chapter 67, Water Code; or
(3) engage in a business or activity that may not be engaged in by a nonprofit corporation without first obtaining a license under the laws of this state and a license to engage in that business or activity cannot lawfully be granted to the corporation.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 182, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.
Amended by:
Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 64 (H.B. 1319), Sec. 4, eff. January 1, 2006.
Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 688 (H.B. 1737), Sec. 6, eff. September 1, 2007.
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