Sec. 117.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
(1) "Bank" means a banking corporation or association, an individual banker, or a state or federal savings and loan association or savings bank.
(2) "Clerk" means a county clerk, a district clerk, or a county and district clerk.
(3) "Registry funds" means funds tendered to the clerk for deposit into the registry of the court.
(4) "Separate account" means funds transferred from a special account into a separate interest-bearing account.
(5) "Special account" means an account in a depository in which registry funds are placed.
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987. Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 552, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995; Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 505, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.