APPLICATION TO COURT; FEES
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case LAS PALMAS MEDICAL CENTER v. Moore (2010)
Most recently applied in Denbury Onshore, LLC v. Texcal Energy South Texas, L.P. (December 2016)
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 5.01, 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) The filing with the clerk of the court of an application for an order under this chapter, including a judgment or decree, invokes the jurisdiction of the court.
(b) On the filing of the initial application and the payment to the clerk of the fees of court required to be paid on the filing of a civil action in the court, the clerk shall docket the proceeding as a civil action pending in that court.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.