Tex. Gov't Code § 81.154 · Subchapter J. DECEPTIVE ADVERTISING PRACTICES
FORM OF REQUIRED WARNINGS AND DISCLOSURES; COURT FINDINGS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A visual statement required by this subchapter to appear in an advertisement must be presented clearly, conspicuously, and for a sufficient length of time for a viewer to see and read the statement.
(b) A court may not find that a visual statement in an advertisement is noncompliant with Subsection (a) if the statement is presented in the same size and style of font and for the same duration as a visual reference to the telephone number or Internet website of the entity a responding person contacts for the legal services offered or discussed in the advertisement.
(c) A verbal statement required by this subchapter to appear in an advertisement must be audible, intelligible, and presented with equal prominence as the other parts of the advertisement.
(d) A court may not find that a verbal statement in an advertisement is noncompliant with Subsection (c) if the statement is made at approximately the same volume and uses approximately the same number of words per minute as the voice-over of longest duration in the advertisement other than information required by this subchapter.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 528 (S.B. 1189), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2019.
Source of truth
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.81.htm
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