Tex. Business Organizations Code § 2.002
This is the official text of Tex. Business Organizations Code § 2.002, part of Texas’s Business Organizations Code — governs the formation and operation of corporations, LLCs, and partnerships.
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§ 2.002. PURPOSES OF NONPROFIT ENTITY.
Official statutory text
The purpose or purposes of a domestic nonprofit entity may include one or more of the following purposes:
(1) serving charitable, benevolent, religious, eleemosynary, patriotic, civic, missionary, educational, scientific, social, fraternal, athletic, aesthetic, agricultural, and horticultural purposes;
(2) operating or managing a professional, commercial, or trade association or labor union;
(3) providing animal husbandry; or
(4) operating on a nonprofit cooperative basis for the benefit of its members.
(1) serving charitable, benevolent, religious, eleemosynary, patriotic, civic, missionary, educational, scientific, social, fraternal, athletic, aesthetic, agricultural, and horticultural purposes;
(2) operating or managing a professional, commercial, or trade association or labor union;
(3) providing animal husbandry; or
(4) operating on a nonprofit cooperative basis for the benefit of its members.
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