Tex. Ins. Code § 961.051 · Subchapter B. FORMATION AND STRUCTURE OF NONPROFIT LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATIONS
FILING OF CERTIFICATE OF FORMATION; NONPROFIT STATUS REQUIRED.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Seven or more persons may file with the secretary of state a certificate of formation in accordance with Title 1, Business Organizations Code, to form a nonprofit legal services corporation.
(a-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), a nonprofit legal services corporation that on or before September 1, 2019, was organized under the former Texas Non-Profit Corporation Act (Article 1396-1.01 et seq., Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) or was formed under the Texas Nonprofit Corporation Law, as described by Section 1.008, Business Organizations Code, is a nonprofit legal services corporation for purposes of this chapter.
(b) A nonprofit legal services corporation must be governed and operated as a nonprofit organization.
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History
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1419, Sec. 1, eff. June 1, 2003.
Amended by:
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 643 (S.B. 1623), Sec. 5, eff. September 1, 2019.
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 643 (S.B. 1623), Sec. 6, eff. September 1, 2019.
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