Art. 43.02. PAYABLE IN MONEY.  All recognizances, bail bonds, and undertakings of any kind, whereby a party becomes bound to pay money to the State, and all fines and forfeitures of a pecuniary character, shall be collected in the lawful money of the United States only.
Acts 1965, 59th Leg., vol. 2, p. 317, ch. 722.