Sec. 400. PENALTY FOR FAILURE TO FILE ANNUAL ACCOUNT    


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  • Should any personal representative of an estate fail to return any annual account required by preceding sections of this Code, any person interested in said estate may, upon written complaint, or the court upon its own motion may, cause the personal representative to be cited to return such account, and show cause for such failure. If he fails to return said account after being so cited, or fails to show good cause for his failure so to do, the court, upon hearing, may revoke the letters of such representative, and may fine him in a sum not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500). He and his sureties shall be liable for any fine imposed, and for all damages and costs sustained by reason of such failure, which may be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Acts 1955, 54th Leg., p. 88, ch. 55, eff. Jan. 1, 1956. Amended by Acts 1957, 55th Leg., p. 53, ch. 31, Sec. 11(b); Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 957, Sec. 67, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.