BUSINESS AND COMMERCE CODE

TITLE 10.  USE OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS

SUBTITLE A.  TELEPHONES

CHAPTER 303.  TELEPHONE SOLICITATION FOR CERTAIN LAW ENFORCEMENT-RELATED CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS

SUBCHAPTER A.  GENERAL PROVISIONS

Sec. 303.001.  DEFINITIONS.  In this chapter:
(1)  "Commercial telephone solicitor" means a person whom a law enforcement-related charitable organization retains to make a telephone solicitation, directly or through another person under the direction of the person retained.  The term does not include a bona fide officer, director, or employee of, or volunteer for, a law enforcement-related charitable organization.
(2)  "Contribution" means a promise to give or a gift of money or other property, credit, financial assistance, or another thing of any kind or value.  The term does not include:
(A)  volunteer services; or
(B)  bona fide fees, dues, or assessments a member pays if membership is not conferred solely as consideration for making a contribution in response to a telephone solicitation.
(3)  "Law enforcement-related charitable organization" means a person who solicits a contribution and is or purports to be established or operating for a charitable purpose relating to law enforcement.  The term includes a nongovernmental law enforcement organization or publication and survivors of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.  The term does not include a governmental law enforcement agency or organization.
(4)  "Telephone solicitation" means the use of a telephone to solicit another person to make a charitable contribution to a law enforcement-related charitable organization.
Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 885 (H.B. 2278), Sec. 2.01, eff. April 1, 2009.