The term "talent agency" does not apply to:

1. (1) a person who obtains or attempts to obtain employment for himself.
2. (2) an organized labor union that represents artists and whose efforts to obtain or attempt to obtain employment for its members is incidental to representing its members.
3. (3) a person who, without assessing a fee, operates a talent agency in conjunction with the person's own business, or as the authorized representative for a bona fide employer, for the exclusive purpose of employing artists for use in or for that business, or by that employer.
4. (4) attorneys licensed to practice who represent artists, strictly as legal advisors and not as managers.

Source Note:The provisions of this §78.30 adopted to be effective March 1, 1994, 19 TexReg 1102; amended to be effective December 12, 1994, 19 TexReg 9492; amended to be effective July 23, 2001, 26 TexReg 5379.