Sec. 51.017.  CONTINUATION OF POWERS, DUTIES, PENALTIES, AND SUITS AFTER CHANGE TO TYPE A GENERAL-LAW MUNICIPALITY.  (a)  This section applies only to a Type A general-law municipality that:
(1)  changed to that type under Subchapter B of Chapter 6;   or
(2)  changed its municipal type under the predecessor statutes to Subchapter B of Chapter 6.
(b)  The municipality continues to have the powers, rights, immunities, privileges, and franchises possessed at the time the municipality changed to a Type A general-law municipality and continues to be subject to the duties it had at the time of the change.
(c)  A right, action, fine, penalty, or forfeiture that, under the laws in effect before the municipality changed to a Type A general-law municipality, accrued in favor of the municipality in a suit or in any other manner continues to be vested in and shall be prosecuted by the municipality after the change.
(d)  A suit pending against the municipality before the municipality changed to a Type A general-law municipality is not affected by the change.  After the change, the municipality shall, as appropriate, prosecute or defend the suit.
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.