SEC Info - Permian Basin Royalty Trust - ‘10-K’ for 12/31/05

EXHIBIT 31.1

Certification Required by Rule 13a-14(a) or Rule 15d-14(a)

I, Ron Hooper, certify that:

1.		I have reviewed this Annual Report on Form 10-K of Permian Basin Royalty Trust, for which Bank of America, N.A., acts as Trustee;

2.		Based on my knowledge, this annual report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this annual report;

3.		Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this annual report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, distributable income and changes in trust corpus of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this annual report;

4.		I am responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)), or for causing such controls and procedures to be established and maintained, for the registrant and I have:

	a)		designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under my supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to me by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this annual report is being prepared;

	b)		designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under my supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes;

	c)		evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this annual report my conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

	d)		disclosed in this annual report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting;

I have disclosed, based on my most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors:

all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and


Date: March 15, 2006	By:	/s/ *Ron E. Hooper*

		Ron Hooper
		Senior Vice President and Administrator
		Bank of America, N.A.

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On: Wednesday, 3/15/06, at 4:07pm ET · For: 12/31/05 · Accession #: 950134-6-5169 · File #: 1-08033

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