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Texas Insurance Code - Not Codified - Article 7.01. Venue Of Suit On Bond

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Art. 7.01. VENUE OF SUIT ON BOND.                                              

Article repealed effective April 1, 2007
	If any suit shall be instituted upon any bond or obligation of 
any insurance company licensed in this State and having authority 
to act as surety and guarantor of the fidelity of employees, 
trustees, executors, administrators, guardians or others appointed 
to, or assuming the performance of any trust, public or private, 
under appointment of any court or tribunal, or under contract 
between private individuals or corporations, or upon any bond or 
bonds that may be required to be filed in any judicial proceedings, 
or to guarantee any contract or undertaking between individuals, or 
between private corporations, or between individuals or private 
corporations and the State and municipal corporations or counties 
or between corporations and individuals, or on any bond or bonds 
that may be required of any state official, district official, 
county official or official of any school district or of any 
municipality, the proper court of the county wherein said bond is 
filed shall have jurisdiction of said cause.  Service therein shall 
be had as provided by Section 2, 3, or 4, Article 1.36 of this code, 
as applicable.  Such guaranty, fidelity and surety companies shall 
be deemed resident of the counties wherever they may do business, 
and the doing or performing of any business in any county shall be 
deemed an acceptance of the provisions of this Act.

Added by Acts 1959, 56th Leg., 2nd C.S., p. 159, ch. 39, Sec. 1.              

Amended by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 46, Sec. 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.          

Last modified: August 11, 2007