Tex. Business Organizations Code § 200.202: LIMITATIONS ON DISTRIBUTIONS.

(a) A real estate investment trust may not make a distribution:

(1) if the real estate investment trust would be insolvent after the distribution; or

(2) that is more than the surplus of the real estate investment trust.

(b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a)(2), if the net assets of a real estate investment trust are not less than the amount of the proposed distribution, the real estate investment trust may make a distribution involving a purchase or redemption of its own shares if the purchase or redemption is made by the real estate investment trust to:

(1) eliminate fractional shares;

(2) collect or settle indebtedness owed by or to the real estate investment trust;

(3) pay dissenting shareholders entitled to receive payment for their shares under this chapter; or

(4) effect the purchase or redemption of redeemable shares in accordance with this code.

Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 182, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.