Sec. 428. INDISPENSABILITY OF COMPTROLLER AS PARTY    


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  • The comptroller is an indispensable party to any judicial or administrative proceeding concerning the disposition and handling of any portion of an estate that is or may be payable to the comptroller under Section 427 of this Code. Whenever an order shall be made by the court for an executor or administrator to pay any funds to the comptroller under Section 427 of this Code, the clerk of the court in which such order is made shall serve on the comptroller by personal service of citation a certified copy of such order within five days after the same has been made.

Acts 1955, 54th Leg., p. 88, ch. 55, eff. Jan. 1, 1956. Amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 153, Sec. 27, eff. Sept. 1, 1991; Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1423, Sec. 15.02, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.