Tex. Occ. Code § 1201.157 · Subchapter D. PRACTICE
RETAILER AS WAREHOUSE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) With respect to the storage of manufactured homes for hire, a licensed retailer is:
(1) a "warehouse" as defined by Section 7.102, Business & Commerce Code; and
(2) a "warehouseman" under Chapter 24, Property Code.
(b) The provisions of the Business & Commerce Code relating to the storage of goods for hire apply to a licensed retailer acting as a warehouse.
(c) A licensed retailer acting as a warehouse and warehouseman satisfies all storage, bonding, insurance, public sale, and security requirements if the storage of a manufactured home occurs on the retailer's lot and the home is secured in the same manner the retailer secures a manufactured home held on the lot as inventory.
(d) In accordance with the provisions of Section 7.210, Business & Commerce Code, a licensed retailer acting as a warehouse to enforce a warehouse's lien is considered to have sold a manufactured home in a commercially reasonable manner if the retailer sells the manufactured home in the same manner the retailer would sell a manufactured home at retail.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1421, Sec. 2, eff. June 1, 2003.
Amended by:
Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 408 (H.B. 2019), Sec. 20, eff. September 1, 2017.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.1201.htm
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