Texas Business and Commerce Code 302.054 – Exemption: Persons Selling Media Subscriptions, Certain Merchandise, or Items From Certain Catalogs
Terms Used In Texas Business and Commerce Code 302.054
- Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
- Written: includes any representation of words, letters, symbols, or figures. See Texas Government Code 311.005
This chapter does not apply to:
(1) a person soliciting the sale of a subscription to:
(A) a daily or weekly newspaper of general circulation;
(B) a magazine or other periodical of general circulation; or
(C) a cable television service;
(2) a person selling merchandise under an arrangement in which the seller periodically ships the merchandise to a consumer who has consented in advance to receive the merchandise periodically; or
(3) a person periodically issuing and delivering to purchasers catalogs that each:
(A) include a written description or illustration and the sales price of each item offered for sale;
(B) include at least 24 full pages of written material or illustrations;
(C) are distributed in more than one state; and
(D) have an annual circulation of at least 250,000 customers.