United States · Texas statutory limitations
Does Texas impose a universal ninety-day contractual notice deadline?
Section 16.071(a) requires a covered contractual notice condition to be reasonable and makes a stipulation requiring notification within less than ninety days void. The section has railroad, federal subcontract and business-entity transaction provisions. It regulates an actual notice stipulation. It does not impose one universal ninety-day notice deadline after accrual.
- Period
- A reasonable stipulated notice period, generally subject to the ninety-day validity minimum and express exceptions
- Trigger
- The actual notice stipulation and the applicable statutory transaction and exception conditions
- Rule
- Texas CPRC 16.071
Current official consolidated Chapter 16 text retrieved October 5, 2026
Source guide · No automated date
Establish the complete statutory procedure
The isolated ninety-day accrual preset cannot select the actual notice clause or determine reasonableness, recipient and statutory exceptions. No automated notice deadline is published.
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Which events matter for this statutory condition?
Obtain the actual notice stipulation and identify the required event, notice and recipient.
Assess reasonableness separately from the generally applicable ninety-day minimum.
Identify any railroad employee, federal subcontract or business-entity transaction provision that applies.
Texas CPRC 16.071How must the complete timing condition be assessed?
- Obtain the actual notice stipulation and identify the required event, notice and recipient.
- Determine the actual valid notice stipulation and branch before counting. The minimum tests a clause’s validity; it does not supply one universal trigger or period.
- The isolated ninety-day accrual preset cannot select the actual notice clause or determine reasonableness, recipient and statutory exceptions. No automated notice deadline is published.
Section 16.072 concerns filing suit under a statute of limitations. It does not itself create a contract notice deadline, determine contract validity or establish qualifying possession. This guide applies no automated rollover to those different acts.
Texas CPRC 16.071Why does this guide publish no calculated date?
The isolated ninety-day accrual preset cannot select the actual notice clause or determine reasonableness, recipient and statutory exceptions. No automated notice deadline is published.
Which conditions or exclusions change the assessment?
- Reasonableness
- Subsection (a) separately requires a reasonable notice stipulation and voids its specified shorter-than-ninety-day condition. The minimum alone does not establish reasonableness.
- Notice recipient
- Where notice is required, subsection (b) permits notice to a convenient agent of the company requiring it. Establish actual notice and the applicable clause.
- Railroad employee conditions
- Subsection (c) voids the specified railroad, street railway or interurban railroad employee and family negligence-notice conditions. This is distinct from an ordinary commercial notice clause.
- Federal subcontract
- Subsection (d) permits the stated subcontract notice period to be no shorter than the prime contract’s stipulated period minus seven days. Do not substitute a universal ninety-day computation.
- Business-entity transaction exception
- Subsection (f) excludes the specified business-entity sale or purchase contract involving at least $500,000 aggregate consideration under its actual party and payment conditions.
- Notice presumption
- Subsection (e) presumes required notice was given in a covered suit unless lack of notice is specifically pleaded under oath. This guide does not decide disputed service or pleadings.
- Listed government rights
- Section 16.061(a) protects its specified state and political-subdivision rights against section 16.071. Establish the actual claimant and protected right.
- This statutory-text review does not decide disputed facts, accrual, title, retrospective application or a court holding.
What evidence should be checked before acting?
Common questions
This statutory procedure
Does a clause allowing ninety days automatically become reasonable?
No. Subsection (a) separately requires reasonableness and states the shorter-than-ninety-day invalidity condition.
Texas CPRC 16.071(a)Can a federal subcontract have a different minimum?
Subsection (d) uses the actual prime contract’s stipulated period minus seven days as its stated floor. Establish the actual contracts.
Texas CPRC 16.071(d)Does this notice period replace the deadline to file suit?
No. Section 16.071 addresses the actual notice condition. The underlying suit limitation and its event require separate assessment.
Texas CPRC 16.071(a)Official sources and review
Provisions used (11)
| Provision | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Texas CPRC 16.071 | The specific actor, required act and timing conditions |
| Texas CPRC 16.071(a) | Reasonableness |
| Texas CPRC 16.071(b) | Notice recipient |
| Texas CPRC 16.071(c) | Railroad employee conditions |
| Texas CPRC 16.071(d) | Federal subcontract |
| Texas CPRC 16.071(f) | Business-entity transaction exception |
| Texas CPRC 16.071(e) | Notice presumption |
| Texas CPRC 16.061(a) | Listed government rights |
| Texas Government Code 311.005(12) | The statutory year unit, where applicable |
| Texas Government Code 311.014 | Statutory computation, where applicable |
| Texas CPRC 16.072 | The separate statutory suit-filing closed-day provision |