Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 4.008 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
OFFENSE; PENALTY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person commits an offense if the person signs or directs the filing of a filing instrument that the person knows is materially false with intent that the filing instrument be delivered on behalf of an entity to the secretary of state for filing.
(b) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor unless the actor's intent is to defraud or harm another, in which event the offense is a state jail felony.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 182, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BO/htm/BO.4.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
Cited by 5 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 4.008. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Business Organizations Code
- Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 4.007LIABILITY FOR FALSE FILING INSTRUMENTS.Printed as Section 4.008
- Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 5.053DISTINGUISHABLE NAMES REQUIRED.Printed as Sections 4.007 and 4.008
- Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 5.207DESIGNATION OF REGISTERED AGENT WITHOUT CONSENT; PENALTIES AND LIABILITIES.Printed as Sections 4.007 and 4.008
- Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.105USE OF DISTINGUISHABLE NAME REQUIRED.Printed as Sections 4.007 and 4.008
- Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 11.203USE OF DISTINGUISHABLE NAME REQUIRED.Printed as Sections 4.007 and 4.008
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