Release of Ownership of Registered Brand – Hunt County, TX

The Release of Ownership of Registered Brand is the Hunt County Clerk's form for an owner of a brand on file in Hunt County, Texas, to release that brand, state that no claim to it remains, and ask the County Clerk to register and record the release.

The printed text is a short sworn-style statement under the heading "The State of Texas, County of Hunt". The owner gives their name, identifies the brand by the file number and the date it was filed for record with the Hunt County Clerk, and states that they wish to release it. The owner also states that they will no longer have claim to the brand and will not use it for personal use.

The form then carries an acknowledgment block. It is completed for the person whose name is subscribed to the instrument, who acknowledges having executed it for the purposes and consideration expressed, and it ends with a signature line for a Notary or Deputy County Clerk. A space beside the form is reserved for the clerk's recording label only.

The form cites Texas Agriculture Code 144.014: a copy of the application is to be forwarded within 30 days from the date received to the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association. The form does not register a new brand; it ends the owner's claim to one that is already recorded.

The owner of a registered brand that was filed with the Hunt County Clerk in Hunt County, Texas, uses this form when they want to release that brand. The form is written in the first person ("I ... am the owner of a registered brand"), so it is completed for the owner named on the existing brand filing.

You need the file number and the date the brand was filed for record, because the form asks you to identify the brand by both. If you do not have them, they come from the original brand filing in the Hunt County Clerk's records.

Do not use this form to register a new mark or brand: it is a release of one already on file. The form prints no rule about who may sign for an owner, such as an agent or a representative, so ask the Hunt County Clerk before anyone signs on an owner's behalf.

The trigger is the owner's decision to release a brand recorded with the Hunt County Clerk. The form prints no deadline for the owner and no expiration date, so it is submitted whenever the owner wants the release recorded.

The only time limit printed on the form applies to the clerk's side: under Texas Agriculture Code 144.014, a copy of the application is to be forwarded within 30 days from the date received to the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association. That period starts when the County Clerk receives your application, not when you sign it.

The form does not list submission channels. Its header gives the Hunt County Clerk's mailing address, and the application is made to the County Clerk of Hunt County, Texas, for registration and recording of the release:

• Mailing address on the form: Hunt County Clerk, P.O. Box 1316, Greenville, Texas 75403-1316.
• Notary or clerk acknowledgment: the acknowledgment block is completed by a Notary or Deputy County Clerk, so plan for that step before you send the form.
• Contact the clerk: for any other delivery method, fee or hours, ask the Hunt County Clerk's office; the form names none.

After the County Clerk receives the application, the clerk is to forward a copy within 30 days to the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, 1301 West Seventh St., Suite 201, Fort Worth, TX 76102-2665 (telephone 800-242-7820, fax (817)887-4402), as Texas Agriculture Code 144.014 provides. You do not send that copy yourself.

FillingPDF lets you fill out and download the PDF; submission follows the channels above.