SH> PETER BRADIE (1:123/140) wrote to STEVEN HORN at 20:33 on 28 Oct 2002:

SH>  PB> Texas has a limit as to the size a business must not exceed in
SH>  PB> order to avail  themselves of our Deceptive Trade Practice/Consumer
SH>  PB> Protection Act.  I'd have  to check the statutes, but the number
SH>  PB> $50MM in sales seems to sound right.   Of course that's the cutting
SH>  PB> score for Small Business according to the feds. ---

SH> $50,000,000 in sales?  That would be a pretty reasonably sized business up
SH> here.  I did look at our Sale of Goods Act and it would cover this transaction
SH> but one can contract out of it.

A personal consumer can't contract out of our DTPA, although a
business could, if the bargaining strength was equal and the
transaction was arms length.

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