Texas Human Resources Code 121.002 – Definitions
Terms Used In Texas Human Resources Code 121.002
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- 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
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
In this chapter:
(1) “Assistance animal” and “service animal” mean a canine that is specially trained or equipped to help a person with a disability and that is used by a person with a disability.
(2) “Harass” means any conduct that:
(A) is directed at an assistance animal that impedes or interferes with, or is intended to impede or interfere with, the animal’s performance of its duties; or
(B) places a person with a disability who is using an assistance animal, or a trainer who is training an assistance animal, in danger of injury.
(3) “Housing accommodations” means all or part of real property that is used or occupied or is intended, arranged, or designed to be used or occupied as the home, residence, or sleeping place of one or more human beings, except a single-family residence whose occupants rent, lease, or furnish for compensation only one room.
(4) “Person with a disability” means a person who has:
(A) a mental or physical disability;
(B) an intellectual or developmental disability;
(C) a hearing impairment;
(D) deafness;
(E) a speech impairment;
(F) a visual impairment;
(G) post-traumatic stress disorder; or
(H) any health impairment that requires special ambulatory devices or services.
(5) “Public facility” includes a street, highway, sidewalk, walkway, common carrier, airplane, motor vehicle, railroad train, motor bus, streetcar, boat, or any other public conveyance or mode of transportation; a hotel, motel, or other place of lodging; a public building maintained by any unit or subdivision of government; a retail business, commercial establishment, or office building to which the general public is invited; a college dormitory or other educational facility; a restaurant or other place where food is offered for sale to the public; and any other place of public accommodation, amusement, convenience, or resort to which the general public or any classification of persons from the general public is regularly, normally, or customarily invited.
(6) “White cane” means a cane or walking stick that is metallic or white in color, or white tipped with a contrasting color, and that is carried by a blind person to assist the blind person in traveling from place to place.