Tex. Occ. Code § 1001.061 · Subchapter B. EXEMPTIONS
TELEPHONE COMPANIES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) An operating telephone company, an affiliate of the company, or an employee of the company or affiliate is exempt from this chapter with respect to any plan, design, specification, or service that relates strictly to the science and art of telephony.
(b) This exemption includes the use of a job title or personnel classification by a person included under Subsection (a) if the person does not use:
(1) the title or classification in connection with an offer to the public to perform engineering services; and
(2) a name, title, or word that tends to convey the impression that a person not licensed under this chapter is offering to the public to perform engineering services.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1421, Sec. 1, eff. June 1, 2003.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.1001.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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