Tex. Occ. Code § 102.051 · Subchapter B. HEALING ARTS
SOLICITING PATIENTS; OFFENSE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person commits an offense if the person:
(1) practices the art of healing with or without the use of medicine; and
(2) employs or agrees to employ, pays or promises to pay, or rewards or promises to reward or provide any benefit or commission to another for soliciting or securing a patient or patronage.
(b) A person commits an offense if the person accepts or agrees to accept anything of value or any benefit or commission for soliciting or securing a patient or patronage for a person who practices the art of healing with or without the use of medicine.
(c) An offense under this section is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than $100 or more than $200. Each violation of this section is a separate offense.
(d) For purposes of this section, a person who practices the art of healing includes a masseur and an optometrist.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Amended by:
Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 527 (H.B. 4454), Sec. 10, eff. September 1, 2025.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.102.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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