Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 117.052 · Subchapter C. DEPOSITORY ACCOUNTS
DEPOSITS OF REGISTRY FUNDS BY COUNTY AND DISTRICT CLERKS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) If a depository has been selected under Subchapter B, a county clerk or a district clerk who is to have for more than three days legal custody of money deposited in the registry of the court pending the result of a legal proceeding shall deposit the money in the depository.
(b) The funds deposited shall be carried at the depository selected under this chapter as a special account in the name of the clerk making the deposit.
(c) A clerk is responsible for funds deposited into the registry fund from the following sources:
(1) funds of minors or incapacitated persons;
(2) funds tendered in an interpleader action;
(3) funds paid in satisfaction of a judgment;
(4) child support funds held for more than three days;
(5) cash bonds;
(6) cash bail bonds;
(7) funds in an eminent domain proceeding; and
(8) any other funds tendered to the clerk for deposit into the registry of the court.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987. Amended by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 1, Sec. 17(d), eff. Aug. 28, 1989; Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 505, Sec. 11, eff. Sept. 1, 1997; Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 292, Sec. 1, eff. May 23, 2001.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.117.htm
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