Section 51.017 - Continuation of Powers, Duties, Penalties, and Suits After Change to Type A General-Law Municipality(a) This section applies only to a Type A general-law municipality that: (1) changed to that type under Subchapter B of Chapter 6; or(2) changed its municipal type under the predecessor statutes to Subchapter B of Chapter 6.(b) The municipality continues to have the powers, rights, immunities, privileges, and franchises possessed at the time the municipality changed to a Type A general-law municipality and continues to be subject to the duties it had at the time of the change.(c) A right, action, fine, penalty, or forfeiture that, under the laws in effect before the municipality changed to a Type A general-law municipality, accrued in favor of the municipality in a suit or in any other manner continues to be vested in and shall be prosecuted by the municipality after the change.(d) A suit pending against the municipality before the municipality changed to a Type A general-law municipality is not affected by the change. After the change, the municipality shall, as appropriate, prosecute or defend the suit.Tex. Loc. Gov't. Code § 51.017
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/1987.