Tex. Lab. Code § 201.077 · Subchapter E. EXCEPTIONS TO EMPLOYMENT
SERVICE BY LANDMAN.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this subtitle, "employment" does not include service performed for a private for-profit person by a landman, as defined by Section 1702.324, Occupations Code, if:
(1) the compensation paid to the landman directly relates only to the performance of the service; and
(2) the service performed by the landman is performed under a written contract between the landman and the person for whom the service is performed that provides that the landman is to be treated as an independent contractor and not as an employee with respect to the service provided under the contract.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 9.25(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 37 (S.B. 529), Sec. 1, eff. May 19, 2015.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LA/htm/LA.201.htm
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