{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-local-government-code-6.014","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Local Government Code § 6.014","heading":"CHANGE DOES NOT AFFECT PRIOR NAME OR STATUS AS BODY CORPORATE.","body":"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.\nActs 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.","path":["LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE","TITLE 2. ORGANIZATION OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT","SUBTITLE A. TYPES OF MUNICIPALITIES","CHAPTER 6. TYPE A GENERAL-LAW MUNICIPALITY","SUBCHAPTER B. CHANGE FROM ANOTHER MUNICIPAL TYPE TO TYPE A GENERAL-LAW MUNICIPALITY"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.6.htm#6.014","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:27Z","sha256":"c366a3505502224495bd13a96f5ea664442c474c3f980d46f4b4124e1aee30f8","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-local-government-code-6.013","next":"us-tx/tex.-local-government-code-7.001"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}