ADVERTISING FOR PLACEMENT OF CHILD.
Tex. PENAL Code § 25.09.
in effect(a) A person commits an offense if the person advertises in the public media that the person will place, provide, or obtain a child for adoption or any other form of permanent physical custody of the child.
(b) This section does not apply to a licensed child-placing agency that is identified in the advertisement as a licensed child-placing agency.
(c) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor unless the person has been convicted previously under this section, in which event the offense is a felony of the third degree.
(d) In this section:
(1) "Child" has the meaning assigned by Section 101.003 , Family Code.
(2) "Public media" has the meaning assigned by Section 38.01 . The term also includes communications through the use of the Internet or another public computer network.
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 561, Sec. 31, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.