Tex. Occ. Code § 2101.002 · Chapter 2101. CONSIGNMENT OF ART WORKS
DEFINITIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this chapter:
(1) "Art" means a commonly recognized art form, including a painting, sound recording of a musical performance, sculpture, drawing, work of graphic art, pottery, weaving, batik, macrame, or quilt.
(2) "Art dealer" means a person in the business of selling works of art.
(3) "Artist" means the creator of a work of art or, if the creator is dead, the creator's estate.
(4) "Creditor" has the meaning assigned by Section 1.201, Business & Commerce Code.
(5) "Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation, or association.
(6) "Recording distributor" means a person who acquires a sound recording and sells the sound recording to another person for use or resale.
(7) "Sound recording" means a tangible medium on which music or other sounds are recorded or otherwise stored, including a phonograph record, disc, tape, cassette, or other medium now existing or developed later on which music or other sounds are or can be recorded or otherwise stored or a copy or reproduction that duplicates in whole or in part the original. The term does not include a medium on which the primary recorded information is information other than music or other sound, such as a motion picture or computer program, and that contains recorded sound as an integrated part of the primary recorded information.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Amended by:
Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 233 (S.B. 846), Sec. 1, eff. May 27, 2005.
Source of truth
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.2101.htm
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