§ 64.071.Venue for Appointment

A single, mandatory venue rule for corporate receiverships.

An action to have a receiver appointed for a corporation with property in this state shall be brought in the county in which the principal office of the corporation is located.

"Shall" and a single county. No alternatives, no plaintiff’s choice — unusual for a Texas venue provision.

The reason lies in what a corporate receivership does. It takes control of an entire enterprise, and the corporation’s books, officers, employees and operations are at the principal office.

Concentrating the proceeding there is practical. A receiver appointed elsewhere would administer at a distance from everything they must administer.

It also prevents a competitive scramble. A corporation with property in many counties could otherwise face receivership applications in each, from different creditors, before different judges.

The rule turns on the principal office rather than on state of incorporation, so a company organised elsewhere but headquartered in Texas is covered where its office is.

The trigger is property in this state, which is what gives a Texas court anything to administer.

The section works with the foreign appointment prohibition: no out-of-state court may appoint a receiver for Texas property, and within Texas the proceeding belongs in one identified county.

Note that this governs the corporate receivership only. The mineral and missing person receiverships have their own venue provisions, keyed to where the land or the estate is.