Tex. Local Government Code § 117.027: FAILURE TO SELECT DEPOSITORY.

If the commissioners court has not selected a depository under this subchapter, a clerk holding money, an evidence of debt, an instrument of writing, or any other article deposited into the registry of the court pending the result of a legal proceeding shall seal the article in a secure package and deposit the package in an iron safe or a bank vault.

Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987. Amended by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 1, Sec. 17(d), eff. Aug. 28, 1989; Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 505, Sec. 9, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.