Art. 1524k. RESTRAINING VIOLATION OF ORDERS, RULES OR REGULATIONS;  PUNISHMENT FOR VIOLATION OF INJUNCTION.  If any agent, servant, officer or employee of any corporation created under the provisions of this Act shall wilfully violate any order, rule, regulation or ordinance fixing rents, charges, rate of return, areas and method of operation, the District Court of the County in which the property of such corporation is situated, upon application of the governing body of the municipality or county, where the properties to be owned or operated are situated outside the corporate limits of any organized town, city or village wherein the corporation owns property, may issue during its term or in vacation a temporary writ of injunction restraining such agents, servants, officers or employees from any violation of such order, rule, regulation or ordinance and which temporary writ of injunction may be made permanent upon notice and hearing in the manner now provided by law.  No bond shall be required before issuing any such temporary or permanent injunction and if any such injunction is violated by the agents, servants, officers or employees of said corporation, the Court, in addition to its power to punish for contempt, may order that the building of such corporation shall not be used or occupied for any period not to exceed one year but the Court shall permit said building to be occupied or used if the owner, lessee, tenant or occupant thereof shall give bond with sufficient surety to be provided by the Court in the sum of not less than Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars nor more than One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars, payable to the Judge of said Court, conditioned that said corporation, its agents, servants, officers or employees will thereafter comply with the orders, rules, regulations or ordinances which have been or may be promulgated, fixing the rents, charges, or rate of return, areas and methods of operation of said corporation and that it will pay all fines and costs that may be assessed in contempt proceedings against its agents, servants, officers and employees for the violation of any writ of injunction existing, or which may thereafter be issued.
Acts 1932, 42nd Leg., 3rd C.S., p. 107, ch. 42, Sec. 10.  Amended by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 1039, Sec. 4.08, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.


									
Acts 1933, 43rd Leg., p. 306, ch. 118.

Acts 1941, 47th Leg., p. 409, ch. 238.

Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 991 (H.B. 3854), Sec. 2, eff. June 19, 2009.


									
Acts 1937, 45th Leg., p. 831, ch. 408.  Renumbered from art. 7155a by Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1784, ch. 389, Sec. 38(d), eff. Jan. 1, 1982.

Acts 1934, 43rd Leg., 4th C.S., p. 58, ch. 24.