Tex. Prop. Code § 53.239 · Subchapter J. LIEN ON MONEY DUE PUBLIC WORKS CONTRACTOR
ACTION ON BOND.
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A claimant must sue on the bond within six months after the bond is filed.
(b) The bond is not exhausted by one action on it. Each obligee or his assignee may maintain a separate suit on the bond in any court of jurisdiction.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3556, ch. 576, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PR/htm/PR.53.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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