SERVICE ON SECRETARY OF STATE
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case G.F.S. Ventures, Inc. v. Harris (1996)
Most recently applied in Bank of New York v. Chesapeake 34771 Land Trust (January 2015)
Added by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 954, Sec. 1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) In an action in which citation may be served on the secretary of state, service may be made by certified mail, return receipt requested, by the clerk of the court in which the case is pending or by the party or the representative of the party.
(b) The method of service of citation provided by this section is in addition to any other method authorized by statute or the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure for service on the secretary of state.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.