Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 173.003 · Chapter 173. ARBITRATION OF CERTAIN CONTROVERSIES INVOLVING MEMBERS OF CERTAIN NONPROFIT ENTITIES
AGREEMENT OR BYLAW PROVISION VALID.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A written agreement to submit a controversy to arbitration at common law is valid and enforceable if the agreement is to arbitrate a controversy that arises between the parties after the date of the agreement.
(b) A party may revoke the agreement only on a ground that exists at law or in equity for the revocation of a contract.
(c) A provision in the bylaws of a nonprofit corporation incorporated under the Texas Non-Profit Corporation Act (Article 1396-1.01 et seq., Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) or under Subchapter C, Chapter 23, Business Organizations Code, that requires a member of the corporation to arbitrate at common law a controversy that subsequently arises between members or between the corporation and its members is a valid, enforceable, and irrevocable agreement by a member of the corporation to arbitrate the controversy.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 5.03, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Amended by:
Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 750 (H.B. 3949), Sec. 3, eff. June 12, 2023.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CP/htm/CP.173.htm
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