Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 173.003

AGREEMENT OR BYLAW PROVISION VALID

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 5.03, eff

(a) A written agreement to submit a controversy to arbitration at common law is valid and enforceable if the agreement is to arbitrate a controversy that arises between the parties after the date of the agreement.

(b) A party may revoke the agreement only on a ground that exists at law or in equity for the revocation of a contract.

(c) A provision in the bylaws of a nonprofit corporation incorporated under the Texas Non-Profit Corporation Act (Article 1396-1.01 et seq., Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) or under Subchapter C, Chapter 23, Business Organizations Code, that requires a member of the corporation to arbitrate at common law a controversy that subsequently arises between members or between the corporation and its members is a valid, enforceable, and irrevocable agreement by a member of the corporation to arbitrate the controversy.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.