Sec. 455.005. INFORMING PUBLIC PROBATE ADMINISTRATOR. (a) If a public officer or employee knows of a decedent without known or suitable next of kin or knows of property of a decedent that is subject to loss, injury, waste, or misappropriation, the officer or employee may inform the public probate administrator of that fact.
(b) If a person dies in a hospital, mental health facility, or board and care facility without known or suitable next of kin, the person in charge of the hospital or facility may give immediate notice of that fact to the public probate administrator of the county in which the hospital or facility is located.
(c) A funeral director in control of a decedent's remains may notify the public probate administrator if:
(1) none of the persons listed in Section 711.002, Health and Safety Code, can be found after a reasonable inquiry or contacted by reasonable means; or
(2) any of the persons listed in Section 711.002, Health and Safety Code, refuses to act.
Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 671 (H.B. 1755), Sec. 2, eff. January 1, 2014.
Structure Texas Statutes
Title 2 - Estates of Decedents; Durable Powers of Attorney
Subtitle J - Additional Matters Relating to the Administration of Certain Estates
Chapter 455 - Public Probate Administrator
Section 455.002. Bond of Public Probate Administrator
Section 455.003. Funding of Public Probate Administrator's Office
Section 455.004. Powers and Duties
Section 455.005. Informing Public Probate Administrator
Section 455.006. Public Probate Administrator's Initiation of Administration
Section 455.007. Access to Information
Section 455.008. Small Estates
Section 455.009. Small Estate Affidavit
Section 455.010. Grant of Administration
Section 455.011. Withdrawal of Public Probate Administrator and Appointment of Successor