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Texas Occupations Code § 2101.003

Consigned Art Exempt from Certain Liens or Claims

Consignment of Art Works

(a) Notwithstanding any provision of the Business & Commerce Code, a work of art delivered to an art dealer for exhibition or sale and the proceeds from the dealer's sale of the work of art are not subject to a claim, lien, or security interest of a creditor of the dealer.

(b) This section applies to the proceeds of a sale of a work of art regardless of whether the art dealer or another person purchased the work.

Official text of the Texas Occupations Code as published by the Texas Legislative Council.

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Legislative history

Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.