Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 140B.101 · Subchapter C. CIVIL REMEDIES
CIVIL REMEDIES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A district court may, after making due provision for the rights of innocent persons, enjoin conduct constituting an offense under Section 72.02, 72.03, or 72.04, Penal Code, by issuing appropriate orders and judgments, including:
(1) ordering a defendant to divest of any interest in any enterprise, including real property;
(2) imposing reasonable restrictions on the future activities or investments of a defendant, including prohibiting a defendant from engaging in the same type of endeavor as the enterprise in which the defendant was engaged in conduct constituting an offense under Section 72.02, 72.03, or 72.04, Penal Code;
(3) ordering the dissolution or reorganization of an enterprise;
(4) ordering the suspension or revocation of a license, permit, or approval previously granted to an enterprise by any state agency; or
(5) ordering the forfeiture of the charter of a corporation organized under the laws of this state, or the revocation of a certificate allowing a foreign corporation to conduct business within this state, on finding that:
(A) the board of directors or a managerial agent acting on behalf of the corporation, in conducting the affairs of the corporation, has authorized or engaged in conduct constituting an offense under Section 72.02, 72.03, or 72.04, Penal Code; and
(B) for the prevention of future criminal activity, the public interest requires the charter of the corporation forfeited and the corporation dissolved or the certificate revoked.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 885 (H.B. 4635), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2023.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CP/htm/CP.140B.htm
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Penal Code
- Tex. Penal Code § 72.02USE OF PROCEEDS DERIVED FROM RACKETEERING OR UNLAWFUL DEBT COLLECTION.Printed as Section 72.02, 72.03, or 72.04, Penal Code
- Tex. Penal Code § 72.03ACQUISITION OF INTEREST IN PROPERTY OR CONTROL OF ENTERPRISE THROUGH RACKETEERING OR UNLAWFUL DEBT COLLECTION.Printed as Section 72.02, 72.03, or 72.04, Penal Code
- Tex. Penal Code § 72.04PARTICIPATION IN ENTERPRISE THROUGH RACKETEERING OR UNLAWFUL DEBT COLLECTION.Printed as Section 72.02, 72.03, or 72.04, Penal Code
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