Tex. Civ. Practice & Remedies Code Section 17.030
Return of Service


(a)

The supreme court shall adopt rules of civil procedure requiring a person who serves process to complete a return of service.

(b)

The rules:

(1)

must provide that the return of service:

(A)

is not required to be endorsed or attached to the original process issued; and

(B)

may be electronically filed; and

(2)

may require that the following information be included in the return of service:

(A)

the cause number and case name;

(B)

the court in which the case has been filed;

(C)

the date and time process was received for service;

(D)

the person or entity served;

(E)

the address served;

(F)

the date of service;

(G)

the manner of delivery of service;

(H)

a description of process served;

(I)

the name of the person serving process; and

(J)

if the process server is certified as a process server by the supreme court, the process server’s identification number.

(c)

A person certified by the supreme court as a process server or a person authorized outside of Texas to serve process shall sign the return of service under penalty of perjury. The return of service is not required to be verified.

(d)

A person who knowingly or intentionally falsifies a return of service may be prosecuted for tampering with a governmental record as provided by Chapter 37 (Perjury and Other Falsification), Penal Code.
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 245 (H.B. 962), Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2012.

Source: Section 17.030 — Return of Service, https://statutes.­capitol.­texas.­gov/Docs/CP/htm/CP.­17.­htm#17.­030 (accessed Mar. 23, 2024).

Accessed:
Mar. 23, 2024

§ 17.030’s source at texas​.gov