Section 761.001 - Definitions In this chapter:
(1) "Campus credit card marketing activity": (A) means any activity: (i) conducted by an agent or employee of a credit card issuer on the campus of a postsecondary educational institution; and(ii) designed to encourage and enable students to apply for a credit card; and(B) includes the act of placing on the campus a display or poster together with a form that can be returned to the credit card issuer as a credit card application, even if an employee or agent of the credit card issuer is not present at the display.(2) "Credit card" means a card or device issued under an agreement by which the issuer gives to a cardholder the right to obtain credit from the issuer or another person.(3) "Credit card issuer" means a lender, including a financial institution, or a merchant that receives applications and issues credit cards to individuals.(4) "Governing board" means the body charged with policy direction of any postsecondary educational institution, including a board of directors, a board of regents, a board of trustees, and an independent school district board that is charged with policy direction of a public junior college.(5) "Postsecondary educational institution" means:(A) an institution of higher education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code;(B) a private or independent institution of higher education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code; or(C) a private postsecondary educational institution as defined by Section 61.302, Education Code.Tex. Bus. and Comm. Code § 761.001
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 87, Sec. 4.014(a), eff. 9/1/2009.