Sec. 114. TERMINATION    


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  • (a) All power and authority of an applicant under an emergency intervention order cease to be effective or enforceable on the 90th day after the date the order was issued or on the date a personal representative is qualified, whichever occurs first.

    (b) If a personal representative has not been appointed when an emergency intervention order issued under Section 113(b) of this code ceases to be effective, a person who is in possession of the decedent's personal property that is the subject of the order, without incurring civil liability, may:

    (1) release the property to the decedent's heirs; or

    (2) dispose of the property under Subchapter C, Chapter 54, Property Code, or Section 7.209 or 7.210, Business & Commerce Code.

Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 712, Sec. 7, eff. Sept. 1, 1993. Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 642, Sec. 11, eff. Sept. 1, 1995. Renumbered from V.A.T.S. Probate Code, Sec. 524 and amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 199, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.