Tex. Prop. Code § 117.012 · Chapter 117. UNIFORM PRUDENT INVESTOR ACT
LANGUAGE INVOKING STANDARD OF CHAPTER.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The following terms or comparable language in the provisions of a trust, unless otherwise limited or modified, authorizes any investment or strategy permitted under this chapter: "investments permissible by law for investment of trust funds," "legal investments," "authorized investments," "using the judgment and care under the circumstances then prevailing that persons of prudence, discretion, and intelligence exercise in the management of their own affairs, not in regard to speculation but in regard to the permanent disposition of their funds, considering the probable income as well as the probable safety of their capital," "prudent man rule," "prudent trustee rule," "prudent person rule," and "prudent investor rule."
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1103, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PR/htm/PR.117.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 b528c7613dbecaddd0be662b5e192ebb8bb822a5e548daf92e5c49b8fe560ed1
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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