Tex. Utilities Code § 162.005
This is the official text of Tex. Utilities Code § 162.005, part of Texas’s Utilities Code — regulates utility companies.
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§ 162.005. EFFECT OF RECORDING CERTAIN MORTGAGES EXECUTED BY TELEPHONE COOPERATIVES.
Official statutory text
(a) An instrument executed by a telephone cooperative or a foreign corporation doing business in this state under this chapter that affects real and personal property and that is recorded in the real property records of any county in which the property is located or is to be located has the same effect as if the instrument were also recorded as provided by law in the proper office in that county as a mortgage of personal property.
(b) All after-acquired property of a telephone cooperative or foreign corporation doing business in this state under this chapter described by or referred to as being pledged in an instrument to which Subsection (a) applies becomes subject to the lien described by the instrument immediately when the cooperative or corporation acquires the property, without regard to whether the property existed at the time the instrument was executed. The execution of the instrument constitutes notice and otherwise has the same effect with respect to after-acquired property to which this subsection applies as it has under the laws relating to recordation with respect to property that is owned by the cooperative or foreign corporation at the time the instrument is executed and that is described in the instrument as being pledged by the instrument.
(c) After a lien on personal property under an instrument to which Subsection (a) applies is recorded, the lien continues in existence and of record for the period specified in the instrument without:
(1) the refiling of the instrument; or
(2) the filing of any renewal certificate, affidavit, or other supplemental information required by a law relating to the renewal, maintenance, or extension of a lien on personal property.
(b) All after-acquired property of a telephone cooperative or foreign corporation doing business in this state under this chapter described by or referred to as being pledged in an instrument to which Subsection (a) applies becomes subject to the lien described by the instrument immediately when the cooperative or corporation acquires the property, without regard to whether the property existed at the time the instrument was executed. The execution of the instrument constitutes notice and otherwise has the same effect with respect to after-acquired property to which this subsection applies as it has under the laws relating to recordation with respect to property that is owned by the cooperative or foreign corporation at the time the instrument is executed and that is described in the instrument as being pledged by the instrument.
(c) After a lien on personal property under an instrument to which Subsection (a) applies is recorded, the lien continues in existence and of record for the period specified in the instrument without:
(1) the refiling of the instrument; or
(2) the filing of any renewal certificate, affidavit, or other supplemental information required by a law relating to the renewal, maintenance, or extension of a lien on personal property.
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