Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 19.003 · Chapter 19. LOST RECORDS
APPLICATION FOR RELIEF.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) To supply a record that has been lost, destroyed, or removed:
(1) a person interested in an instrument or in a judgment, order, or decree of the district court may file an application with the district clerk of the county in which the record was lost or destroyed or from which the record was removed;
(2) a person interested in a judgment, order, or decree of a county court may file an application with the clerk of the court to which the record belonged; or
(3) a person interested in a judgment, order, or decree of the business court may file an application with the clerk of the business court.
(b) The application must be in writing and must set forth the facts that entitle the applicant to relief.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 959, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.
Amended by:
Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 912 (H.B. 40), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2025.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CP/htm/CP.19.htm
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- Composed by
- 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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