Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 193.008 · Chapter 193. RECORDING AND INDEXING BY COUNTIES
CLASSIFICATION OF RECORDS ON MICROFILM.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) If a county clerk or clerk of a county court chooses to maintain records on microfilm as provided by Chapter 204 and rules adopted under that chapter, the clerk shall divide the instruments received for filing, registering, or recording into seven classes for recording on microfilm.
(b) The seven classes of microfilm records are:
(1) records relating to real property, known as "Official Public Records of Real Property";
(2) records relating to receivables, chattels, and personal property, known as "Official Public Records of Personal Property and Chattels";
(3) records relating to probate matters, known as "Official Public Records of Probate Courts";
(4) records relating to county civil court matters, known as "Official Public Records of County Civil Courts";
(5) records relating to county criminal court matters, known as "Official Public Records of County Criminal Courts";
(6) records relating to matters in the commissioners court, known as "Official Public Records of Commissioners Court"; and
(7) records relating to an individual, a business entity, or a governmental agency, other than a property record or a court record, known as "Official Public Records of Governmental, Business, and Personal Matters."
(c) The clerk shall record each class of record on a separate series of rolls of microfilm or in a separate series of discrete groups of discrete microfilm images. Each roll of microfilm or separate series of groups of microfilm images is considered to be a bound volume or book.
(d) The clerk may consolidate the records described by Subsections (b)(1) and (7) into a single class known as "Official Public Records."
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 1248, Sec. 58, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.193.htm
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- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 193.002CLASSIFICATION AND INDEX OF RECORDS NOT ON MICROFILM.Printed as Section 193.008(b) | Section 193.008(d)
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 193.003INDEX TO REAL PROPERTY RECORDS.Printed as Sections 193.008 and 193.009
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 193.004INDEX TO JUDGMENTS.Printed as Sections 193.008 and 193.009
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 193.005INDEXES TO OTHER RECORDS.Printed as Sections 193.008 and 193.009
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 193.009INDEXING OF RECORDS ON MICROFILM.Printed as Section 193.008
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 193.013COMPUTERIZED INDEX FOR CERTAIN RECORDS.Printed as Section 193.008(b)
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