{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-business-organizations-code-2.008","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Business Organizations Code § 2.008","heading":"NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS.","body":"A corporation formed for the purpose of operating a nonprofit institution, including an institution devoted to a charitable, benevolent, religious, patriotic, civic, cultural, missionary, educational, scientific, social, fraternal, athletic, or aesthetic purpose, may be formed and governed only as a nonprofit corporation under this code and not as a for-profit corporation under this code.\nActs 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 182, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.","path":["BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS CODE","TITLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS","CHAPTER 2. PURPOSES AND POWER OF DOMESTIC ENTITY","SUBCHAPTER A. PURPOSES OF DOMESTIC ENTITY"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BO/htm/BO.2.htm#2.008","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:46:58Z","sha256":"f60bad2784adb952cea436c21ad331cafd2c0c843e340a987587c4caca0b2abc","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-business-organizations-code-2.007","next":"us-tx/tex.-business-organizations-code-2.009"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}