Tex. Property Code § 54.025
This is the official text of Tex. Property Code § 54.025, part of Texas’s Property Code — governs real property, landlord-tenant law, and property transactions.
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§ 54.025. DISTRESS WARRANT.
Official statutory text
The person to whom rent is payable under a building lease or the person's agent, attorney, assign, or other legal representative may apply to the justice of the peace in the precinct in which the building is located for a distress warrant if the tenant:
(1) owes rent;
(2) is about to abandon the building; or
(3) is about to remove the tenant's property from the building.
(1) owes rent;
(2) is about to abandon the building; or
(3) is about to remove the tenant's property from the building.
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