Section 54.001 - Definitions In this chapter:
(1) "Commission" means compensation paid a sales representative by a principal in an amount based on a percentage of the dollar amount of certain orders for or sales of the principal's product.(2) "Principal" means a person who: (A) manufactures, produces, imports, or distributes a product for sale;(B) uses a sales representative to solicit orders for the product; and(C) compensates the sales representative wholly or partly by commission.(3) "Sales representative" means an independent contractor who solicits, on behalf of a principal, orders for the purchase at wholesale of the principal's product.Tex. Bus. and Comm. Code § 54.001
Amended By Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 885, Sec. 2.01, eff. 4/1/2009.