(A) Consistent with § 156.005 of this chapter, the city may file the civil action in the district court to recover a money judgment and to enforce that judgment in the same manner as other money judgments entered by the district court. If the defendant is still an inmate in the city jail, county jail or other jail facility, or is a prisoner in a state correctional facility, venue in a district of the first class is proper in the county where the city jail, county jail or other jail facility, or where the state correction facility is located and in a district of the second or third class is proper in the judicial district where the city jail, county jail or other jail facility, or where the state correction facility is located.
(B) If necessary to protect the city’s right to obtain reimbursement under this subchapter against the disposition of known property, the city, in accordance with rules of the Supreme Court of the state, may seek issuance of an ex parte restraining order to restrain the defendant from disposing of the property pending a hearing on an order to show cause why the particular property should not be applied to reimbursement of the city for the maintenance and support of the defendant as an inmate.
(C) To protect and maintain the property pending resolution of the matter the city, upon request, may appoint a receiver. The cost of the receiver shall be paid for by the inmate.
(Prior Code, § 25-206) (Ord. 1266, passed 5-15-2006)