Texas § TX.151.0103 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES
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§ TX.151.0103. TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES
TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES. (a) For the purposes of this title only, "telecommunications services" means the electronic or electrical transmission, conveyance, routing, or reception of sounds, signals, data, or information utilizing wires, cable, radio waves, microwaves, satellites, fiber optics, or any other method now in existence or that may be devised, including but not limited to long-distance telephone service. The term does not include: (1) the storage of data or information for subsequent retrieval or the processing, or reception and processing, of data or information intended to change its form or content; (2) the sale or use of a telephone prepaid calling card; (3) Internet access service; or (4) a pay telephone coin sent-paid telephone call. (b) The exemption provided by Subsection (a)(4) applies only to the portion of the sales price of the telecommunications service that is paid by coin. Added by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 206, Sec. 4, eff. Oct. 1, 1985. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1040, Sec. 17, eff. Sept. 1, 1997; Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 394, Sec. 3, eff. Oct. 1, 1999. Amended by: Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1199 (H.B. 1459 ), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2007. Sec. 151.01032. "TELEPHONE PREPAID CALLING CARD". "Telephone prepaid calling card" means a card or other item, including an access code, that represents the right to make one or more telephone calls for which payment is made in incremental amounts and before the call is initiated. The term "telephone prepaid calling card" does not include a card sold by mechanical means for consideration of one dollar or less. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1040, Sec. 15, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
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Section TX.151.0103 ("TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES") is part of the The Texas Constitution, the codified statutory law of Texas. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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