Section 80.002 - Definitions In this chapter:
(1) "Museum" means an institution located in this state and operated by a nonprofit corporation or public agency, primarily educational, scientific, or aesthetic in purpose, that owns, borrows, or cares for and studies, archives, or exhibits property.(2) "Lender" means a person whose name appears on the records of a museum as the person entitled to property held or owed by the museum.(3) "Loan," "loaned," and "on loan" include all deposits of property with a museum that are not accompanied by a transfer of title to the property.(4) "Property" or "cultural property" means all tangible objects, animate and inanimate, under a museum's care that have intrinsic, scientific, historic, artistic, or cultural value.Added by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 1076, Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/1987.