Tex. Transp. Code § 6.001 · Chapter 6. SALE OF UNCLAIMED GOODS
SALE OF FREIGHT OR BAGGAGE.
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A common carrier may sell at public auction freight or baggage that it conveyed to any point in this state if the owner, whether known or unknown, of the freight or baggage, within three months of the date of the conveyance, fails to claim it and pay any charges due at the office, depot, or warehouse closest or most convenient to the destination.
(b) Each article of freight or baggage must be offered separately as consigned or checked.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.6.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 9671e407ea02bc519121bf2a8d9c037fe90597295fcb0a0e81b6c1f991f39f0c
- 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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