CITIES EXEMPT FROM SECURITY FOR COURT COSTS
Applied in 13 court decisions — leading case In re Nalle Plastics Family Ltd. Partnership (2013)
Most recently applied in Hays Street Bridge Restoration Group v. City of San Antonio (March 2019)
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 959, 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) Security for costs may not be required of an incorporated city or town of this state in an action, suit, or proceeding.
(b) A municipality may institute and prosecute suits without giving security for cost and may appeal from judgment without giving supersedeas or cost bond.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.