Tex. Property Code § 26.003
This is the official text of Tex. Property Code § 26.003, part of Texas’s Property Code — governs real property, landlord-tenant law, and property transactions.
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§ 26.003. APPLICABILITY.
Official statutory text
This chapter applies to an individual:
(1) alive on or after September 1, 1987, or who died before September 1, 1987, but on or after January 1, 1937; and
(2) whose name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness has commercial value at the time of his or her death or comes to have commercial value after that time.
(1) alive on or after September 1, 1987, or who died before September 1, 1987, but on or after January 1, 1937; and
(2) whose name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness has commercial value at the time of his or her death or comes to have commercial value after that time.
Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site
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