Tex. Occ. Code § 351.361 · Subchapter H. PRACTICE BY LICENSE HOLDER
LEASE; PAYMENT BASIS; ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) An optometrist or therapeutic optometrist may:
(1) lease space from an establishment;
(2) pay for franchise fees or other services on a percentage or gross receipts basis; or
(3) sell, transfer, or assign accounts receivable.
(b) Subsection (a)(2) does not authorize activity prohibited by Section 351.408.
(c) The purpose of this section is to protect the public in the practice of optometry or therapeutic optometry, better enable the public to assign professional responsibility, and further safeguard the doctor-patient relationship.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.351.htm
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- sha256 bc27cf5b5d351c261833cdd6446de901cbb53bd2bc5992224623705ba1eae67b
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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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Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Occ. Code § 351.361. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Occupations Code
- Tex. Occ. Code § 351.362PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY; NAME OF PRACTICE.Printed as Section 351.361(c)
- Tex. Occ. Code § 351.366AUTHORITY TO FORM CERTAIN JOINTLY OWNED ENTITIES.Printed as Section 351.361 or 351.457
- Tex. Occ. Code § 351.457PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY; FEES.Printed as Section 351.361(c)
- Tex. Occ. Code § 351.458PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY; USE OF NAME OR PROFESSIONAL IDENTIFICATION.Printed as Section 351.361(c)
- Tex. Occ. Code § 351.502WILFUL OR REPEATED NONCOMPLIANCE.Printed as Section 351.361(c) | Sections 351.361, 351.362, 351.457, and 351.458
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