Texas Local Government Code
§ 51.017 — CONTINUATION OF POWERS, DUTIES, PENALTIES, AND SUITS AFTER CHANGE TO TYPE A GENERAL-LAW MUNICIPALITY
LG § 51.017Title 2. ORGANIZATION OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT · Part D. GENERAL POWERS OF MUNICIPALITIES · Ch. 51. GENERAL POWERS OF MUNICIPALITIES · Art. B. PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO TYPE A GENERAL-LAW MUNICIPALITY
Statute text
View on source(a)This section applies only to a Type A general-law municipality that:
(1)changed to that type under Subchapter B of Chapter 6; 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.
Legislative history
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.