Tex. Occ. Code § 2401.001 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
DEFINITIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this chapter:
(1) Repealed by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 816, Sec. 17.006(1); Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1276, Sec. 14A.651.
(2) "Department" means the Department of Public Safety.
(2-a) "Executive director" means the executive director of the department.
(3) "Motor carrier" has the meaning assigned by 49 U.S. C. Section 13102.
(4) "Person" means an individual, corporation, partnership, or association.
(5) "Transportation service provider" or "freight forwarder" means a person, other than a motor carrier, who:
(A) represents to the public that the person provides transportation in this state only of property for compensation; and
(B) in the ordinary course of business:
(i) assembles and consolidates, or provides for assembling and consolidating, a shipment;
(ii) performs or provides for break-bulk and distribution operations of a shipment;
(iii) assumes responsibility for the land transportation of property at any place from origin to destination; and
(iv) uses a motor or rail carrier at any time during the transportation.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1421, Sec. 5, eff. June 1, 2003. Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 816, Sec. 17.001, 17.006(1), eff. Sept. 1, 2003; Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1276, Sec. 14A.651(a), (b), eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.2401.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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