Tex. Fin. Code § 348.014 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
TRANSACTION CONDITIONED ON PURCHASE OF VEHICLE PROTECTION PRODUCT PROHIBITED.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) In this section, "vehicle protection product" has the meaning assigned by Section 17.45, Business & Commerce Code.
(b) A retail seller may not require as a condition of a retail installment transaction or the cash sale of a motor vehicle that the buyer purchase a vehicle protection product that is not installed on the vehicle at the time of the transaction.
(c) A violation of this section is a false, misleading, or deceptive act or practice within the meaning of Section 17.46, Business & Commerce Code, and is actionable in a public or private suit brought under Subchapter E, Chapter 17, Business & Commerce Code.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 967 (S.B. 2065), Sec. 1.003, eff. September 1, 2017.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/FI/htm/FI.348.htm
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Business & Commerce Code
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code ch. 17, subch. EDECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTIONPrinted as Subchapter E, Chapter 17, Business & Commerce Code
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 17.45DEFINITIONS.Printed as Section 17.45, Business & Commerce Code
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 17.46DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES UNLAWFUL.Printed as Section 17.46, Business & Commerce Code
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