CONSTRUCTION AND APPLICATION
Known as the Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act
The act spans §§ 17–17 (31 sections).
Applied in 77 court decisions — leading case Amstadt v. United States Brass Corp. (1996)
Most recently applied in 374 F. Supp. 3d 361 - Fleetwood Servs., LLC v. Complete Bus. Solutions Grp., Inc. (April 2019)
Added by Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 322, ch. 143, Sec. 1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) This subchapter shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes, which are to protect consumers against false, misleading, and deceptive business practices, unconscionable actions, and breaches of warranty and to provide efficient and economical procedures to secure such protection.
(b) Chapter 27, Property Code, prevails over this subchapter to the extent of any conflict.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.