Sec. 151.004.  DELIVERY OF DOCUMENT WITHOUT COURT ORDER.  (a)  Subject to Subsection (c), a person who permits an examination of a decedent's document or safe deposit box under Section 151.003 may deliver:
(1)  a document appearing to be the decedent's will to:
(A)  the clerk of a court that:
(i)  has probate jurisdiction; and
(ii)  is located in the county in which the decedent resided; or
(B)  a person named in the document as an executor of the decedent's estate;
(2)  a document appearing to be a deed to a burial plot in which the decedent is to be buried, or appearing to give burial instructions, to the person conducting the examination; or
(3)  a document appearing to be an insurance policy on the decedent's life to a beneficiary named in the policy.
(b)  A person who has leased a safe deposit box to the decedent shall keep a copy of a document delivered by the person under Subsection (a)(1) until the fourth anniversary of the date of delivery.
(c)  A person may not deliver a document under Subsection (a) unless the person examining the document:
(1)  requests delivery of the document; and
(2)  issues a receipt for the document to the person delivering the document.
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680 (H.B. 2502), Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2014.