ACTION ON FRANCHISE
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Buddy Gregg Motor Homes, Inc. v. Motor Vehicle Board of the Texas Department of Transportation (2005)
Most recently applied in Bray v. Tejas Toyota, Inc. (February 2012)
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1421, Sec. 5, 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) Notwithstanding the terms of any franchise or any other law, an action or proceeding brought by a manufacturer, representative, converter, or distributor against a dealer must be brought in an appropriate forum in this state only, and the law of this state applies to the action or proceeding.
(b) Each party to a franchise owes to the other party a duty of good faith and fair dealing that is actionable in tort.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.