Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 118.023 · Subchapter B. FEES OF COUNTY CLERK OTHER THAN COURT FEES
FEES FOR EX OFFICIO SERVICES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) If the county clerk receives fees for ex officio services or for other public services not otherwise provided for, the commissioners court shall set the fees. The fees shall be paid quarterly out of the county treasury on the order of the commissioners court.
(b) A county clerk may not be compelled to file or record any instrument or writing authorized or required to be recorded until payment for all fees has been tendered. This provision does not apply to papers or instruments filed or recorded in suits pending in county court.
(c) In this section, "ex officio services" includes services in relation to roads, bridges, and ferries; issuing and taking receipts for jury scrip or county orders for payment; services in habeas corpus cases; making out bar dockets; keeping records of trust funds; filing and docketing all papers for the commissioners court; keeping road overseers' books and lists of hands; recording all collection returns of delinquent insolvents; recording county treasurer's reports; recording reports of justices of the peace; recording reports of animals slaughtered; and services in connection with elections.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
Amended by:
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 606 (S.B. 373), Sec. 27, eff. September 1, 2011.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.118.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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