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TX Bus & Com Code § 9.709 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Business and Commerce Code|Title 1 - Uniform Commercial Code|Chapter 9 - Secured Transactions|Subchapter G. Transition Provisions|Section 9.709. Priority

Sec. 9.709.   PRIORITY.  (a)  This chapter, as revised, determines the priority of conflicting claims to collateral.  However, if the relative priorities of the claims were established before the revision takes effect, this chapter, as it existed before the effective date of the revision, determines priority.(b)  For purposes of Section 9.322(a), as revised, the priority of a security interest that becomes enforceable under Section 9.203, as revised, dates from the time the revision takes effect if the security interest is perfected under this chapter, as revised, by the filing of a financing statement before the revision takes effect that would not have been effective to perfect the security interest under this chapter, as it existed immediately before the effective date of the revision. This subsection does not apply to conflicting security interests each of which is perfected by the filing of such a financing statement.|Reenacted from Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 414, Sec. 3.08 and amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 705, Sec. 23, eff. June 13, 2001.|
TX Bus & Com Code § 9.801 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Business and Commerce Code|Title 1 - Uniform Commercial Code|Chapter 9 - Secured Transactions|Subchapter H. Transition Provisions for 2013 Amendments|Section 9.801. Effective Date of Amendments

Sec. 9.801.  EFFECTIVE DATE OF AMENDMENTS.  (a)  In this subchapter, "2013 amendments" means the amendments to this chapter enacted by the Act of the 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011, that enacted this subchapter.(b)  The 2013 amendments take effect July 1, 2013.|Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 67 (S.B. 782), Sec. 18, eff. July 1, 2013.|
TX Bus & Com Code § 9.802 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Business and Commerce Code|Title 1 - Uniform Commercial Code|Chapter 9 - Secured Transactions|Subchapter H. Transition Provisions for 2013 Amendments|Section 9.802. Saving Clause

Sec. 9.802.  SAVING CLAUSE.  (a)  Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, the 2013 amendments apply to a transaction or lien within its scope, even if the transaction or lien was entered into or created before July 1, 2013.(b)  The 2013 amendments do not affect an action, case, or proceeding commenced before July 1, 2013.|Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 67 (S.B. 782), Sec. 18, eff. July 1, 2013.|Sec. 9.803.  SECURITY INTEREST PERFECTED BEFORE EFFECTIVE DATE.  (a)  A security interest that is a perfected security interest immediately before July 1, 2013, is a perfected security interest under this chapter, as amended by the 2013 amendments, if, when the 2013 amendments take effect, the applicable requirements for attachment and perfection under this chapter, as amended by the 2013 amendments, are satisfied without further action.(b)  Except as otherwise provided in Section 9.805, if, immediately before July 1, 2013, a security interest is a perfected security interest, but the applicable requirements for perfection under this chapter, as amended by the 2013 amendments, are not satisfied when the 2013 amendments take effect, the security interest remains perfected thereafter only if the applicable requirements for perfection under this chapter, as amended by the 2013 amendments, are satisfied within one year after the 2013 amendments take effect.|Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 67 (S.B. 782), Sec. 18, eff. July 1, 2013.|
TX Bus & Com Code § 9.806 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Business and Commerce Code|Title 1 - Uniform Commercial Code|Chapter 9 - Secured Transactions|Subchapter H. Transition Provisions for 2013 Amendments|Section 9.806. When Initial Financing Statement Suffices to Continue Effectiveness of Financing Statement

Sec. 9.806.  WHEN INITIAL FINANCING STATEMENT SUFFICES TO CONTINUE EFFECTIVENESS OF FINANCING STATEMENT.  (a)  The filing of an initial financing statement in the office specified in Section 9.501 continues the effectiveness of a financing statement filed before July 1, 2013, if:(1)  the filing of an initial financing statement in that office would be effective to perfect a security interest under this chapter, as amended by the 2013 amendments;(2)  the pre-effective-date financing statement was filed in an office in another state; and(3)  the initial financing statement satisfies Subsection (c).(b)  The filing of an initial financing statement under Subsection (a) continues the effectiveness of the pre-effective-date financing statement:(1)  if the initial financing statement is filed before July 1, 2013, for the period provided in unamended Section 9.515 with respect to an initial financing statement; and(2)  if the initial financing statement is filed after the 2013 amendments take effect, for the period provided in Section 9.515, as amended by the 2013 amendments, with respect to an initial financing statement.(c)  To be effective for purposes of Subsection (a), an initial financing statement must:(1)  satisfy the requirements of Subchapter E, as amended by the 2013 amendments, for an initial financing statement;(2)  identify the pre-effective-date financing statement by indicating the office in which the financing statement was filed and providing the dates of filing and file numbers, if any, of the financing statement and of the most recent continuation statement filed with respect to the financing statement; and(3)  indicate that the pre-effective-date financing statement remains effective.|Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 67 (S.B. 782), Sec. 18, eff. July 1, 2013.|
TX Bus & Com Code § 9.807 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Business and Commerce Code|Title 1 - Uniform Commercial Code|Chapter 9 - Secured Transactions|Subchapter H. Transition Provisions for 2013 Amendments|Section 9.807. Amendment of Pre-Effective-Date Financing Statement

Sec. 9.807.  AMENDMENT OF PRE-EFFECTIVE-DATE FINANCING STATEMENT.  (a)  In this section, "pre-effective-date financing statement" means a financing statement filed before July 1, 2013.(b)  After the 2013 amendments take effect, a person may add or delete collateral covered by, continue or terminate the effectiveness of, or otherwise amend the information provided in, a pre-effective-date financing statement only in accordance with the law of the jurisdiction governing perfection as provided in this chapter, as amended by the 2013 amendments.  However, the effectiveness of a pre-effective-date financing statement also may be terminated in accordance with the law of the jurisdiction in which the financing statement is filed.(c)  Except as otherwise provided in Subsection (d), if the law of this state governs perfection of a security interest, the information in a pre-effective-date financing statement may be amended after the 2013 amendments take effect only if:(1)  the pre-effective-date financing statement and an amendment are filed in the office specified in Section 9.501;(2)  an amendment is filed in the office specified in Section 9.501 concurrently with, or after the filing in that office of, an initial financing statement that satisfies Section 9.806(c); or(3)  an initial financing statement that provides the information as amended and satisfies Section 9.806(c) is filed in the office specified in Section 9.501.(d)  If the law of this state governs perfection of a security interest, the effectiveness of a pre-effective-date financing statement may be continued only under Sections 9.805(c) and (e) or Section 9.806.(e)  Whether or not the law of this state governs perfection of a security interest, the effectiveness of a pre-effective-date financing statement filed in this state may be terminated after the 2013 amendments take effect by filing a termination statement in the office in which the pre-effective-date financing statement is filed, unless an initial financing statement that satisfies Section 9.806(c) has been filed in the office specified by the law of the jurisdiction governing perfection as provided in this chapter, as amended by the 2013 amendments, as the office in which to file a financing statement.|Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 67 (S.B. 782), Sec. 18, eff. July 1, 2013.|
TX Bus & Com Code § 9.808 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Business and Commerce Code|Title 1 - Uniform Commercial Code|Chapter 9 - Secured Transactions|Subchapter H. Transition Provisions for 2013 Amendments|Section 9.808. Person Entitled to File Initial Financing Statement or Continuation Statement

Sec. 9.808.  PERSON ENTITLED TO FILE INITIAL FINANCING STATEMENT OR CONTINUATION STATEMENT.  A person may file an initial financing statement or a continuation statement under this subchapter if:(1)  the secured party of record authorizes the filing; and(2)  the filing is necessary under this subchapter:(A)  to continue the effectiveness of a financing statement filed before July 1, 2013; or(B)  to perfect or continue the perfection of a security interest.|Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 67 (S.B. 782), Sec. 18, eff. July 1, 2013.|
TX Bus & Com Code § 9.809 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Business and Commerce Code|Title 1 - Uniform Commercial Code|Chapter 9 - Secured Transactions|Subchapter H. Transition Provisions for 2013 Amendments|Section 9.809. Priority

Sec. 9.809.  PRIORITY.  The 2013 amendments determine the priority of conflicting claims to collateral.  However, if the relative priorities of the claims were established before July 1, 2013, this chapter as it existed before amendment determines priority.|Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 67 (S.B. 782), Sec. 18, eff. July 1, 2013.|
TX Bus & Com Code § 15.01 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Business and Commerce Code|Title 2 - Competition and Trade Practices|Chapter 15 - Monopolies, Trusts and Conspiracies in Restraint of Trade|Subchapter A. General Provisions and Prohibited Restraints|Section 15.01. Title of Act

Sec. 15.01.  TITLE OF ACT.  This Act shall be known and may be cited as the Texas Free Enterprise and Antitrust Act of 1983.|Amended by Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3010, ch. 519, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 29, 1983.|
TX Bus & Com Code § 15.02 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Business and Commerce Code|Title 2 - Competition and Trade Practices|Chapter 15 - Monopolies, Trusts and Conspiracies in Restraint of Trade|Subchapter A. General Provisions and Prohibited Restraints|Section 15.02. Applicability of Provisions

Sec. 15.02.  APPLICABILITY OF PROVISIONS.  (a)  The provisions of this Act are cumulative of each other and of any other provision of law of this state in effect relating to the same subject.  Among other things, the provisions of this Act preserve the constitutional and common law authority of the attorney general to bring actions under state and federal law.(b)  If any of the provisions of this Act are held invalid, the remainder shall not be affected as a result;  nor shall the application of the provision held invalid to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid be affected as a result.|Amended by Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3010, ch. 519, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 29, 1983.|
TX Bus & Com Code § 15.03 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Business and Commerce Code|Title 2 - Competition and Trade Practices|Chapter 15 - Monopolies, Trusts and Conspiracies in Restraint of Trade|Subchapter A. General Provisions and Prohibited Restraints|Section 15.03. Definitions

Sec. 15.03.  DEFINITIONS.  Except as otherwise provided in Subsection (a) of Section 15.10 of this Act, for purposes of this Act:(1)  The term "attorney general" means the Attorney General of Texas or any assistant attorney general acting under the direction of the Attorney General of Texas.(2)  The term "goods" means any property, tangible or intangible, real, personal, or mixed, and any article, commodity, or other thing of value, including insurance.(3)  The term "person" means a natural person, proprietorship, partnership, corporation, municipal corporation, association, or any other public or private group, however organized, but does not include the State of Texas, its departments, and its administrative agencies or a community center operating under Subchapter A, Chapter 534, Health and Safety Code.(4)  The term "services" means any work or labor, including without limitation work or labor furnished in connection with the sale, lease, or repair of goods.(5)  The terms "trade" and "commerce" mean the sale, purchase, lease, exchange, or distribution of any goods or services;  the offering for sale, purchase, lease, or exchange of any goods or services;  the advertising of any goods or services;  the business of insurance;  and all other economic activity undertaken in whole or in part for the purpose of financial gain involving or relating to any goods or services.|Amended by Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3010, ch. 519, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 29, 1983;  Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 242, Sec. 6.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1991;  Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 601, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.|
TX Bus & Com Code § 15.04 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Business and Commerce Code|Title 2 - Competition and Trade Practices|Chapter 15 - Monopolies, Trusts and Conspiracies in Restraint of Trade|Subchapter A. General Provisions and Prohibited Restraints|Section 15.04. Purpose and Construction

Sec. 15.04.  PURPOSE AND CONSTRUCTION.  The purpose of this Act is to maintain and promote economic competition in trade and commerce occurring wholly or partly within the State of Texas and to provide the benefits of that competition to consumers in the state.  The provisions of this Act shall be construed to accomplish this purpose and shall be construed in harmony with federal judicial interpretations of comparable federal antitrust statutes to the extent consistent with this purpose.|Amended by Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3010, ch. 519, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 29, 1983;  Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 242, Sec. 6.02, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.|
TX Bus & Com Code § 15.11 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Business and Commerce Code|Title 2 - Competition and Trade Practices|Chapter 15 - Monopolies, Trusts and Conspiracies in Restraint of Trade|Subchapter B. Procedure and Evidence|Section 15.11. Party to Suit May Subpoena Witness

Sec. 15.11.  PARTY TO SUIT MAY SUBPOENA WITNESS.  (a)  A party to a suit brought to enforce any of the prohibitions in Section 15.05 of this Act or to enforce the laws conserving natural resources may apply to the clerk of the court in which the suit is pending to subpoena a witness located anywhere in the state.  On receipt of the application, the clerk shall issue the subpoena applied for but may not issue more than five subpoenas for a party without first obtaining the court's written approval.(b)  A witness subpoenaed under Subsection (a) of this section who fails to appear and testify in compliance with the subpoena is guilty of contempt of court and may be fined not more than $100 and attached and imprisoned in the county jail until he or she appears in court and testifies as required.|Added by Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3019, ch. 519, Sec. 2, eff. Aug. 29, 1983.|
TX Bus & Com Code § 15.12 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Business and Commerce Code|Title 2 - Competition and Trade Practices|Chapter 15 - Monopolies, Trusts and Conspiracies in Restraint of Trade|Subchapter B. Procedure and Evidence|Section 15.12. Additional Procedures

Sec. 15.12.  ADDITIONAL PROCEDURES.  In addition to the procedures set forth in this subchapter, the attorney general and any other party to a suit brought by the attorney general to enforce any of the prohibitions in Section 15.05 of this Act may request discovery and production of documents and other things, serve written interrogatories, and subpoena and depose witnesses in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure and other state law relating to discovery.|Amended by Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3019, ch. 519, Sec. 2, eff. Aug. 29, 1983.|
TX Bus & Com Code § 15.13 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Business and Commerce Code|Title 2 - Competition and Trade Practices|Chapter 15 - Monopolies, Trusts and Conspiracies in Restraint of Trade|Subchapter B. Procedure and Evidence|Section 15.13. Immunity From Criminal Prosecution

Sec. 15.13.  IMMUNITY FROM CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.  (a)  Application by Attorney General.  If a person upon whom an investigative demand or request for discovery has been properly served pursuant to Section 15.10, 15.11, or 15.12 of this Act refuses or is likely to refuse to comply with the demand or request on the basis of his or her privilege against self-incrimination, the attorney general may apply to a district court in the county in which the person is located for an order granting the person immunity from prosecution and compelling the person's compliance with the demand or request.(b)  Order Granting Immunity and Compelling Testimony and Production.  Upon receipt of an application filed under Subsection (a) of this section, the court may issue an order granting the person immunity from prosecution and requiring the person to comply with the demand or request notwithstanding his or her claim of privilege.  The order shall explain the scope of protection afforded by it.(c)  Effectiveness of Order.  An order may be issued under Subsection (b) of this section prior to the assertion of the privilege against self-incrimination but shall not be effective until the person to whom it is directed asserts the privilege and is informed of the order.(d)  Compliance with Order.  A person who has been informed of an order issued by a court under this section compelling his or her testimony or production of material may not refuse to comply with the order on the basis of his or her privilege against self-incrimination.  A person who complies with the order may not be criminally prosecuted for or on account of any act, transaction, matter, or thing about which he or she is ordered to testify or produce unless the alleged offense is perjury or failure to comply with the order.  Failure to comply with the order may be punished by the court as contempt of the order.|Amended by Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3019, ch. 519, Sec. 2, eff. Aug. 29, 1983.|
TX Bus & Com Code § 15.16 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Business and Commerce Code|Title 2 - Competition and Trade Practices|Chapter 15 - Monopolies, Trusts and Conspiracies in Restraint of Trade|Subchapter B. Procedure and Evidence|Section 15.16. Declaratory Judgment Action

Sec. 15.16.  DECLARATORY JUDGMENT ACTION.  (a)  A person (other than a foreign corporation not having a permit or certificate of authority to do business in this state) uncertain of whether or not his or her action or proposed action violates or will violate the prohibitions contained in Section 15.05 of this Act may file suit against the state for declaratory judgment, citing this section as authority, in one of the Travis County district courts.(b)  Citation and all process in the suit shall be served on the attorney general, who shall represent the state.  The petition shall describe in detail the person's action or proposed action and all other relevant facts, and the court in its declaratory judgment shall fully recite the action or proposed action and other facts considered.(c)  A declaratory judgment granted under this section which rules that action or proposed action does not violate the prohibitions contained in Section 15.05 of this Act:(1)  shall be strictly construed and may not be extended by implication to an action or fact not recited in the judgment;(2)  does not bind the state with reference to a person not a party to the suit in which the judgment was granted;  and(3)  does not estop the state from subsequently establishing a violation of the prohibitions contained in Section 15.05 of this Act based on an action or fact not recited in the declaratory judgment, which action or fact, when combined with an action or fact recited in the judgment, constitutes a violation of the prohibitions contained in Section 15.05 of this Act.(d)  A person filing suit under this section shall pay all costs of the suit.|Amended by Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3019, ch. 519, Sec. 2, eff. Aug. 29, 1983.|
TX Bus & Com Code § 15.20 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Business and Commerce Code|Title 2 - Competition and Trade Practices|Chapter 15 - Monopolies, Trusts and Conspiracies in Restraint of Trade|Subchapter C. Enforcement|Section 15.20. Civil Suits by the State

Sec. 15.20.  CIVIL SUITS BY THE STATE.  (a)  Suit to Collect Civil Fine.  The attorney general may file suit in district court in Travis County or in any county in the State of Texas in which any of the named defendants resides, does business, or maintains its principal office on behalf of the State of Texas to collect a civil fine from any person, other than a municipal corporation, whom the attorney general believes has violated any of the prohibitions in Subsection (a), (b), or (c) of Section 15.05 of this Act.  Every person adjudged to have violated any of these prohibitions shall pay a fine to the state not to exceed $1 million if a corporation, or, if any other person, $100,000.(b)  Suit for Injunctive Relief.  The attorney general may file suit against any person, other than a municipal corporation, in district court in Travis County, or in any county in the State of Texas in which any of the named defendants resides, does business, or maintains its principal office on behalf of the State of Texas to enjoin temporarily or permanently any activity or contemplated activity that violates or threatens to violate any of the prohibitions in Section 15.05 of this Act.  In any such suit, the court shall apply the same principles as those generally applied by courts of equity in suits for injunctive relief against threatened conduct that would cause injury to business or property.  In any such suit in which the state substantially prevails on the merits, the state shall be entitled to recover the cost of suit.Upon finding a violation of the prohibition against acquiring the stock, share capital, or assets of a person in Subsection (d) of Section 15.05 of this Act, the court shall, upon further finding that no other remedy will eliminate the lessening of competition, order the divestiture or other disposition of the stock, share capital, or assets and shall prescribe a reasonable time, manner, and degree of the divestiture or other disposition.(c)  No suit filed under Subsection (a) or (b) of this section may be transferred to another county except on order of the court.(d)  Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the constitutional or common law authority of the attorney general to bring actions under state and federal law.|Amended by Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3034, ch. 519, Sec. 3, eff. Aug. 29, 1983.|
TX Bus & Com Code § 15.22 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Business and Commerce Code|Title 2 - Competition and Trade Practices|Chapter 15 - Monopolies, Trusts and Conspiracies in Restraint of Trade|Subchapter C. Enforcement|Section 15.22. Criminal Suits

Sec. 15.22.  CRIMINAL SUITS.  (a)  Every person, other than a municipal corporation, who acts in violation of any of the prohibitions in Section 15.05(a) or (b) shall be deemed guilty of a felony and upon conviction shall be punished by confinement in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for a term of not more than three years or by a fine not to exceed $5,000 or by both.(b)  A district attorney or criminal district attorney may file criminal suit to enforce the provisions in Subsection (a) of this section in district court in Travis County or in any county in which any of the acts that allegedly have contributed to a violation of any of the prohibitions in Subsections (a) and (b) of Section 15.05 of this Act are alleged to have occurred or to be occurring.|Amended by Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3034, ch. 519, Sec. 3, eff. Aug. 29, 1983.Amended by: Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 87 (S.B. 1969), Sec. 25.010, eff. September 1, 2009.|