Sec. 1303.301. FALSE OR DECEPTIVE STATEMENTS PROHIBITED  


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  • (a) A residential service company may not cause or permit the use of:

    (1) a false or misleading advertisement or solicitation; or

    (2) any deceptive evidence of coverage.

    (b) Unless a residential service company is licensed as an insurer, the company may not use in the company's name, contracts, or literature the word "insurance," "casualty," "surety," or "mutual" or another word that is:

    (1) descriptive of the insurance, casualty, or surety business; or

    (2) deceptively similar to the name or description of an insurance or surety corporation or another residential service company engaging in business in this state.

Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1421, Sec. 3, eff. June 1, 2003.