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Texas Local Government Code - LOC GOV'T § 51.017. Continuation of Powers, Duties, Penalties, and Suits After Change to Type A General-Law Municipality

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by FindLaw Staff

(a) This section applies only to a Type A general-law municipality that:

(1) changed to that type under Subchapter B of Chapter 6;  1 or

(2) changed its municipal type under the predecessor statutes to Subchapter B of Chapter 6.

(b) The municipality continues to have the powers, rights, immunities, privileges, and franchises possessed at the time the municipality changed to a Type A general-law municipality and continues to be subject to the duties it had at the time of the change.

(c) A right, action, fine, penalty, or forfeiture that, under the laws in effect before the municipality changed to a Type A general-law municipality, accrued in favor of the municipality in a suit or in any other manner continues to be vested in and shall be prosecuted by the municipality after the change.

(d) A suit pending against the municipality before the municipality changed to a Type A general-law municipality is not affected by the change. After the change, the municipality shall, as appropriate, prosecute or defend the suit.

1 V.T.C.A., Local Government Code § 6.011 et seq.
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