All municipal records are declared to be the property of the city. No municipal official or employee has, by virtue of his or her position, any personal or property right to such records even though he or she may have developed or compiled them. The unauthorized destruction, removal from files or use of such records is prohibited.
(2012 Code, § 2-348) Penalty, see § 10.99
Statutory reference:
Declaration of local government records as public property, see Tex. Local Government Code § 201.005