Sec. 494. CONSTRUCTION OF POWER RELATING TO STOCK AND BOND TRANSACTIONS    


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  • In a statutory durable power of attorney, the language conferring authority with respect to stock and bond transactions empowers the attorney in fact or agent to buy, sell, and exchange stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and all other types of securities and financial instruments other than commodity futures contracts and call and put options on stocks and stock indexes, receive certificates and other evidences of ownership with respect to securities, exercise voting rights with respect to securities in person or by proxy, enter into voting trusts, and consent to limitations on the right to vote.

Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 49, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.