Sec. 17.030. RETURN OF SERVICE. (a) The supreme court shall adopt rules of civil procedure requiring a person who serves process to complete a return of service.
(b) The rules:
(1) must provide that the return of service:
(A) is not required to be endorsed or attached to the original process issued; and
(B) may be electronically filed; and
(2) may require that the following information be included in the return of service:
(A) the cause number and case name;
(B) the court in which the case has been filed;
(C) the date and time process was received for service;
(D) the person or entity served;
(E) the address served;
(F) the date of service;
(G) the manner of delivery of service;
(H) a description of process served;
(I) the name of the person serving process; and
(J) if the process server is certified as a process server by the supreme court, the process server's identification number.
(c) A person certified by the supreme court as a process server or a person authorized outside of Texas to serve process shall sign the return of service under penalty of perjury. The return of service is not required to be verified.
(d) A person who knowingly or intentionally falsifies a return of service may be prosecuted for tampering with a governmental record as provided by Chapter 37, Penal Code.
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 245 (H.B. 962), Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2012.
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