Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 17.029 · Subchapter B. CITATION GENERALLY
SERVICE ON INMATE OF TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) In this section, "inmate" means a person confined in a facility operated by or under contract with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
(b) In a civil action against an inmate, citation or other civil process may be served on the inmate by serving a person designated under Subsection (c) as an agent for service of civil process.
(c) The warden of each facility operated by or under contract with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall designate an employee at the facility to serve as an agent for service of civil process on inmates confined in the facility.
(d) An employee designated under Subsection (c) as an agent for service of civil process shall promptly deliver any civil process served on the employee to the appropriate inmate.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 267 (H.B. 1381), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2011.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CP/htm/CP.17.htm
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