{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-business-organizations-code-2.010","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Business Organizations Code § 2.010","heading":"PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES OF NONPROFIT CORPORATION.","body":"A nonprofit corporation may not be organized or registered under this code to conduct its affairs in this state to:\n(1) engage in or operate as a group hospital service, rural credit union, agricultural and livestock pool, mutual loan corporation, cooperative association under Chapter 251, cooperative credit association, farmers' cooperative society, Co-operative Marketing Act corporation, rural electric cooperative corporation, telephone cooperative corporation, or fraternal organization operating under the lodge system and incorporated under Subchapter C, Chapter 23;\n(2) engage in water supply or sewer service except as an entity incorporated under Chapter 67, Water Code; or\n(3) engage in a business or activity that may not be engaged in by a nonprofit corporation without first obtaining a license under the laws of this state and a license to engage in that business or activity cannot lawfully be granted to the corporation.\nActs 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 182, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.\nAmended by:\nActs 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 64 (H.B. 1319), Sec. 4, eff. January 1, 2006.\nActs 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 688 (H.B. 1737), Sec. 6, eff. September 1, 2007.","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#2.010","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:46:58Z","sha256":"cff51f8acc602ea275054060427d3bda49d715a76c22d1e90e71f6f32fd90531","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-business-organizations-code-2.009","next":"us-tx/tex.-business-organizations-code-2.011"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}