A municipality that changes to a Type A general-law municipality retains the prior name by which it was known and continues to be a body corporate with perpetual succession.
Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 6.014
CHANGE DOES NOT AFFECT PRIOR NAME OR STATUS AS BODY CORPORATE
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.