{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-business-commerce-code-761.001","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Business \u0026 Commerce Code § 761.001","heading":"DEFINITIONS.","body":"In this chapter:\n(1) \"Campus credit card marketing activity\":\n(A) means any activity:\n(i) conducted by an agent or employee of a credit card issuer on the campus of a postsecondary educational institution; and\n(ii) designed to encourage and enable students to apply for a credit card; and\n(B) includes the act of placing on the campus a display or poster together with a form that can be returned to the credit card issuer as a credit card application, even if an employee or agent of the credit card issuer is not present at the display.\n(2) \"Credit card\" means a card or device issued under an agreement by which the issuer gives to a cardholder the right to obtain credit from the issuer or another person.\n(3) \"Credit card issuer\" means a lender, including a financial institution, or a merchant that receives applications and issues credit cards to individuals.\n(4) \"Governing board\" means the body charged with policy direction of any postsecondary educational institution, including a board of directors, a board of regents, a board of trustees, and an independent school district board that is charged with policy direction of a public junior college.\n(5) \"Postsecondary educational institution\" means:\n(A) an institution of higher education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code;\n(B) a private or independent institution of higher education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code; or\n(C) a private postsecondary educational institution as defined by Section 61.302, Education Code.\nAdded by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 87 (S.B. 1969), Sec. 4.014(a), eff. September 1, 2009.","path":["BUSINESS AND COMMERCE CODE","TITLE 16. ADVERTISING AND MARKETING","SUBTITLE B. MARKETING PRACTICES","CHAPTER 761. CREDIT CARD MARKETING AT POSTSECONDARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS","SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.761.htm#761.001","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:46:56Z","sha256":"00bdb6cd2b6c97cfd522c9f00d51d48967917cde705dff87b188815138812860","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-business-commerce-code-721.003","next":"us-tx/tex.-business-commerce-code-761.051"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}