Subject to any security interest of a lessee (Section 2A.508(e)), if a lessor or a supplier has no agent or place of business at the market of rejection, a merchant lessee, after rejection of goods in the lessee's possession or control, shall follow any reasonable instructions received from the lessor or the supplier with respect to the goods. In the absence of those instructions, a merchant lessee shall make reasonable efforts to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of the goods for the lessor's account if they threaten to decline in value speedily. Instructions are not reasonable if on demand indemnity for expenses is not forthcoming.
Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 2A.511
MERCHANT LESSEE'S DUTIES AS TO RIGHTFULLY REJECTED GOODS
Known as the Uniform Commercial Code
The act spans §§ 1–12 (616 sections).
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 570, Sec. 1, eff
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.