Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 17.065 · Subchapter D. LONG-ARM JURISDICTION OVER NONRESIDENT MOTOR VEHICLE OPERATOR
FAILED SUBSTITUTED SERVICE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) If the notice of service on the chairman cannot be effected by registered or certified mail or if the nonresident or agent refuses to accept delivery of the notice, the plaintiff may have the defendant personally served with a certified copy of the process and a notice stating that the chairman has been served and the date on which he was served.
(b) The return of service under this section must:
(1) state when it was served;
(2) state on whom it was served; and
(3) be signed under penalty of perjury by the party making the service.
(c) The process and notice may be served by any disinterested person competent to make an oath that the process and notice were served.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 959, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.
Amended by:
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 245 (H.B. 962), Sec. 2, eff. January 1, 2012.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CP/htm/CP.17.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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