Tex. Prop. Code § 73.102 · Subchapter B. PRESUMPTION OF ABANDONMENT
CHECKS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A check is presumed to be abandoned on the latest of:
(1) the third anniversary of the date the check was payable;
(2) the third anniversary of the date the issuer or payor of the check last received documented communication from the payee of the check; or
(3) the third anniversary of the date the check was issued if, according to the knowledge and records of the issuer or payor of the check, during that period, a claim to the check has not been asserted or an act of ownership by the payee has not been exercised.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1037, Sec. 15, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PR/htm/PR.73.htm
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