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Tex. Labor Code § 101.153

This is the official text of Tex. Labor Code § 101.153, part of Texas’s Labor Code — governs wages, workplace safety, and workers' compensation.

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§ 101.153. USE OF INSULTING, THREATENING, OR OBSCENE LANGUAGE PROHIBITED.

Official statutory text

A person may not, by use of insulting, threatening, or obscene language, interfere with or intimidate or seek to interfere with or intimidate another:

(1) in the exercise of the other person's lawful right to work or to enter on the performance of a lawful vocation; or

(2) from freely entering or leaving any premises.

Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site

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