Tex. Occupations Code § 2402.001 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 2402 / Section 2402.001
§ 2402.001. DEFINITIONS.
Status: in_force

In this chapter:

(1) "Delivery customer" means an individual who orders or receives a digitally prearranged delivery through a delivery network company's digital network undertaken by a delivery person.

(1) "Automated driving system" and "automated motor vehicle" have the meanings assigned by Section 545.451, Transportation Code.

(1-a) "Delivery network company" means a business entity that offers or uses a digital network to arrange for the delivery of food, beverages, or consumer goods from a restaurant or retail establishment to a delivery customer. The term does not include an entity that only delivers products that the entity produces or stores on the entity's premises.

(1-a) "Department" means the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.

(1-b) "Delivery person" means an individual who undertakes a digitally prearranged delivery in this state using a delivery network company's digital network.

(1-c) "Department" means the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.

(2) "Digital network" means any online-enabled application, website, or system offered or used by:

(A) a transportation network company that enables the prearrangement of rides between passengers and drivers; or

(B) a delivery network company that enables digitally prearranged deliveries.

(2-a) "Digitally prearranged delivery" means the transport and delivery or attempted delivery of goods to a delivery customer that is prearranged through a delivery network company's digital network. The term may include the selection or collection of items for delivery by an individual using a delivery network company's digital network and other tasks incidental to delivery.

(3) "Digitally prearranged ride" means a ride in a personal vehicle between points chosen by the passenger that is prearranged through a digital network.

(3-a) "Driver" means an individual who undertakes a digitally prearranged ride between points chosen by a passenger.

(4) "Personal vehicle" means a vehicle that:

(A) is owned, leased, or otherwise authorized for use by a driver; and

(B) is not a taxicab, limousine, or other vehicle regulated by a municipality under Section 215.004, Local Government Code, or a joint airport board under Section 22.081, Transportation Code.

(5) "Transportation network company" means a corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, or other entity that, for compensation, enables a passenger to prearrange with a driver, exclusively through the entity's digital network, a digitally prearranged ride. The term does not include an entity that provides:

(A) street-hail taxicab services;

(B) limousine or other car services arranged by a method other than through a digital network;

(C) shared expense carpool or vanpool arrangements; or

(D) a type of ride service for which:

(i) the fee received by the driver does not exceed the driver's costs of providing the ride; or

(ii) the driver receives a fee that exceeds the driver's costs associated with providing the ride but makes not more than three round-trips per day between the driver's or passenger's place of employment and the driver's or passenger's home.