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Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 7.07 — Surety may exonerate himself

Current through 89th Legislature, 2nd Called Session (2025)

Part of Chapter 7: PROCEEDINGS BEFORE MAGISTRATES TO PREVENT OFFENSES, Texas Code of Criminal Procedure.

Full text of Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 7.07

Statutory text current through the 89th Legislature, 2nd Called Session (2025). This publication reproduces the official statutory text; it is not the official statutes of the State of Texas.

Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 7.07Primary source, current through the 89th Legislature, 2nd Called Session (2025)

A surety upon any such bond may, at any time before a breach thereof, exonerate himself from the obligations of the same by delivering to any magistrate of the county where such bond was taken, the person of the defendant; and such magistrate shall in that case again require of the defendant bond, with other security in the same amount as the first bond; and the same proceeding shall be had as in the first instance, but the one year's time shall commence to run from the date of the first order.

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