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2025 Texas Statutes
Occupations Code
Title 11 - Regulation of Sales and Solicitation
Chapter 1801 - Commission Merchants
Subchapter D. Actions Against Commission Merchants
Section 1801.152. False Charges
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TX Occ Code § 1801.152 (2025)
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Sec. 1801.152. FALSE CHARGES. (a) A commission merchant may not charge for mending or patching, roping bales, cooperage or repairing bales, labor, hauling, cartage, storage, or marking or weighing unless the work is actually done.
(b) A charge specifically describing work performed must be made on a bill regardless of any contrary usage or custom to make the charge by rate or average.
(c) A person who violates this section is subject to a penalty of not less than $100 or more than $500. The owner or consignor may recover the penalty by filing suit.
Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
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