Tex. Health and Safety Code § 164.002
This is the official text of Tex. Health and Safety Code § 164.002, part of Texas’s Health and Safety Code — covers public health and safety regulation.
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§ 164.002. LEGISLATIVE PURPOSE.
Official statutory text
The purpose of this chapter is to safeguard the public against fraud, deceit, and misleading marketing practices and to foster and encourage competition and fair dealing by mental health facilities and chemical dependency facilities by prohibiting or restricting practices by which the public has been injured in connection with the marketing and advertising of mental health services and the admission of patients. Nothing in this chapter should be construed to prohibit a mental health facility or chemical dependency facility from advertising its services in a general way or promoting its specialized services. However, the public should be able to clearly distinguish between the marketing activities of the facility and its clinical functions.
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