Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 5.058 · Subchapter B. GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO NAMES OF ENTITIES
NAME OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION OR FOREIGN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The name of a professional association or foreign professional association must contain:
(1) the word "associated," "associates," or "association";
(2) the phrase "professional association"; or
(3) an abbreviation of one of those words or that phrase.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 182, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.
Amended by:
Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 688 (H.B. 1737), Sec. 25, eff. September 1, 2007.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BO/htm/BO.5.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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