CIVIL PRACTICE AND REMEDIES CODE

TITLE 3. EXTRAORDINARY REMEDIES

CHAPTER 66. QUO WARRANTO

Sec. 66.001.  GROUNDS.  An action in the nature of quo warranto is available if:
(1)  a person usurps, intrudes into, or unlawfully holds or executes a franchise or an office, including an office in a corporation created by the authority of this state;
(2)  a public officer does an act or allows an act that by law causes a forfeiture of his office;
(3)  an association of persons acts as a corporation without being legally incorporated;
(4)  a corporation does or omits an act that requires a surrender or causes a forfeiture of its rights and privileges as a corporation;
(5)  a corporation exercises power not granted by law;
(6)  a railroad company charges an extortionate rate for transportation of freight or passengers;  or
(7)  a railroad company unlawfully refuses to move over its lines the cars of another railroad company.
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 959, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.