Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 130.003 · Subchapter A. PAYMENT OF FEES AND TAXES BY CHECK, CREDIT CARD, OR ELECTRONIC MEANS
PAYMENT CONDITIONAL.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The acceptance of a check or credit card invoice for the payment of a fee or tax does not constitute payment of the fee or tax. The fee or tax is not considered paid until the check is honored by the bank on which the check is drawn or the credit card invoice is honored by the issuer.
(b) This section does not prohibit a county tax assessor-collector from issuing receipts, license plates, certificates, or other instruments on the receipt of a check or credit card invoice, but the issuance is conditional on the payment of the check by the drawee bank or the honoring of the credit card invoice by the credit card issuer.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 1, Sec. 23(a)(3), eff. Aug. 28, 1989. Amended by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 737, Sec. 3, eff. Aug. 28, 1989.
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.130.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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