Tex. Local Government Code § 51.017
This is the official text of Tex. Local Government Code § 51.017, part of Texas’s Local Government Code — governs the powers and operations of Texas cities and counties.
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§ 51.017. CONTINUATION OF POWERS, DUTIES, PENALTIES, AND SUITS AFTER CHANGE TO TYPE A GENERAL-LAW MUNICIPALITY.
Official statutory text
(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.
(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.
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