Agriculture Code § 14.063

Sec. 14.063. TERMINATION OF STORAGE. (a) A warehouse operator desiring to terminate the storage of grain in the warehouse operator's warehouse, including grain that is abandoned or is unclaimed prior to the sale of a warehouse, shall do so in accordance with Sections 7.206 and 7.210, Business & Commerce Code, except that the warehouse operator is not required to hold the balance of the proceeds of a sale, but may transfer the balance to the comptroller, who shall treat the money in the same manner as an escheated bank account. (b) A purchaser in good faith of grain sold under Section 7.210, Business & Commerce Code, takes the grain free of any rights of the holder of the receipt, but the receipt is evidence of entitlement to the escheated funds deposited with the comptroller under Subsection (a). Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1423, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1997. Renumbered from Sec. 14.023 and amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1124, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.