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Terms Used In Texas Local Government Code 130.001

  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
  • Signed: includes any symbol executed or adopted by a person with present intention to authenticate a writing. See Texas Government Code 311.005

In this subchapter:
(1) “Check” means an instrument signed by the maker, containing an unconditional promise or order to pay a sum certain in money, containing no other promise, order, obligation, or power given by the maker, payable on demand, and drawn on a bank.
(2) “Credit card invoice” means the document authorized by the holder of a credit card to be used to provide payment of an amount from the holder’s credit card account.
(3) “Maker” means the drawer of a check or the holder of a credit card who authorizes a credit card invoice.
(4) “Payment by electronic means” means payment by telephone or computer but does not include payment in person or by mail.