Tex. Transp. Code § 172.159 · Subchapter D. GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES
SUITS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A district may:
(1) sue and be sued;
(2) institute and prosecute suits without giving security for costs; and
(3) appeal from a judgment without giving a supersedeas or cost bond.
(b) An action at law or in equity against the district must be brought in the county in which the principal office of the district is located, except that a suit in eminent domain must be brought in the county in which the land is located.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 85 (S.B. 1540), Sec. 2.04, eff. April 1, 2011.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.172.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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