(a) The fee for “Personal Property Records Filing” under § 118.011 is for filing or filing and registering, including indexing, in the personal property, chattels, or personal records in the office of the county clerk a document that is authorized or required to be filed in those records.
(b) The fee does not apply to:
(1) notary public records;
(2) marriage records;
(3) vital statistics records;
(4) documents filed in the records of county civil or criminal courts or probate courts;
(5) documents filed and recorded in the real property records in the office of the county clerk; or
(6) instruments for which the filing fee is fixed by the Business & Commerce Code.

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Terms Used In Texas Local Government Code 118.012

  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Property: means real and personal property. See Texas Government Code 311.005
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.

(c) This fee is in addition to any other specific fee provided for by other statute.

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