Sec. 43.0055. COMPETITIVE BIDDING OR ADVERTISING RULES    


Latest version.
  • (a) The department may not adopt rules restricting competitive bidding or advertising by a license holder except to prohibit false, misleading, or deceptive practices.

    (b) In its rules to prohibit false, misleading, or deceptive practices, the department may not include a rule that:

    (1) restricts the use of any medium for advertising;

    (2) restricts the use of a license holder's personal appearance or voice in an advertisement;

    (3) relates to the size or duration of an advertisement by the license holder; or

    (4) restricts the license holder's advertisement under a trade name.

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1022, Sec. 45, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.