Texas Occupations Code

Sec. § 1201.157
Retailer As Warehouse

(a)

With respect to the storage of manufactured homes for hire, a licensed retailer is:

(1)

a “warehouse” as defined by Section 7.102 (Definitions and Index of Definitions), Business & Commerce Code; and

(2)

a “warehouseman” under Chapter 24 (Forcible Entry and Detainer), Property Code.

(b)

The provisions of the Business & Commerce Code relating to the storage of goods for hire apply to a licensed retailer acting as a warehouse.

(c)

A licensed retailer acting as a warehouse and warehouseman satisfies all storage, bonding, insurance, public sale, and security requirements if the storage of a manufactured home occurs on the retailer’s lot and the home is secured in the same manner the retailer secures a manufactured home held on the lot as inventory.

(d)

In accordance with the provisions of Section 7.210 (Enforcement of Warehouse’s Lien), Business & Commerce Code, a licensed retailer acting as a warehouse to enforce a warehouse’s lien is considered to have sold a manufactured home in a commercially reasonable manner if the retailer sells the manufactured home in the same manner the retailer would sell a manufactured home at retail.
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1421, Sec. 2, eff. June 1, 2003.
Amended by:
Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 408 (H.B. 2019), Sec. 20, eff. September 1, 2017.
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