2025 Texas Statutes
Labor Code
Title 4 - Employment Services and Unemployment
Subtitle A - Texas Unemployment Compensation Act
Chapter 201 - Unemployment Compensation Act--General Provisions
Subchapter E. Exceptions to Employment
Section 201.077. Service by Landman
Sec. 201.077. SERVICE BY LANDMAN. In this subtitle, "employment" does not include service performed for a private for-profit person by a landman, as defined by Section 1702.324, Occupations Code, if:
(1) the compensation paid to the landman directly relates only to the performance of the service; and
(2) the service performed by the landman is performed under a written contract between the landman and the person for whom the service is performed that provides that the landman is to be treated as an independent contractor and not as an employee with respect to the service provided under the contract.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 9.25(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 37 (S.B. 529), Sec. 1, eff. May 19, 2015.
