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2025 Texas Statutes
Finance Code
Title 3 - Financial Institutions and Businesses
Subtitle E - Other Financial Businesses
Chapter 154 - Prepaid Funeral Services
Subchapter A. General Provisions
Section 154.001. Purpose
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TX Fin Code § 154.001 (2025)
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Sec. 154.001. PURPOSE. The purposes of this chapter are to:
(1) limit the manner in which a person may accept funds in prepayment of funeral services to be performed in the future;
(2) provide a regulatory framework to give the public an opportunity to arrange and pay for funerals in advance of need; and
(3) provide all safeguards to protect the prepaid funds and to assure that the funds will be available to pay for prearranged funeral services.
Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1008, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
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