2025 Texas Statutes
Finance Code
Title 3 - Financial Institutions and Businesses
Subtitle E - Other Financial Businesses
Chapter 152 - Regulation of Money Services Businesses
Subchapter B. Administrative Provisions
Section 152.061. Presumption of Control

Universal Citation:
TX Fin Code § 152.061 (2025)
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Sec. 152.061. PRESUMPTION OF CONTROL. (a) A person is presumed to exercise a controlling influence over a money services licensee if the person holds the power to directly or indirectly vote not less than 10 percent of the outstanding voting shares or voting interests of a money services licensee or person in control of a money services licensee.

(b) The presumption under Subsection (a) may be rebutted by evidence that the person who is presumed to exercise a controlling influence under Subsection (a) is a passive investor.

(c) For purposes of determining the percentage of a money services licensee controlled by a person, the person's interest shall be aggregated with the interest of any person:

(1) related within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, other than a person's grandparent or grandchild; or

(2) who shares the person's home.

Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 277 (S.B. 895), Sec. 1.01, eff. September 1, 2023.

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