Texas Tax Code

§ 33.56 — VACATION OF JUDGMENT

TX § 33.56Title 1. PROPERTY TAX CODE · Part E. COLLECTIONS AND DELINQUENCY · Ch. 33. DELINQUENCY · Art. C. DELINQUENT TAX SUITS

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(a)If, in a suit to collect a delinquent tax, a court renders a judgment for foreclosure of a tax lien on behalf of a taxing unit, any taxing unit that was a party to the judgment may file a petition to vacate the judgment on one or more of the following grounds:

(1)failure to join a person needed for just adjudication under the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, including a taxing unit required to be joined under Section 33.44(a);

(2)failure to serve a person needed for just adjudication under the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, including a taxing unit required to be joined under Section 33.44(a);

(3)failure of the judgment to adequately describe the property that is the subject of the suit; or

(4)that the property described in the judgment was subject to multiple appraisals for the tax years included in the judgment.

(b)The taxing unit must file the petition under the same cause number as the delinquent tax suit and in the same court.

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 626, Sec. 1, eff. August 30, 1999. Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1430, Sec. 25, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.