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Legal Department
City Hall
105 W. Juan Linn St.
Victoria, Texas, 77901

The Legal Department's mission is:

  1. provide legal advice to our clients, who are the City's administrators, City Council members, and certain municipal boards and organizations,
  2. review or prepare all documents in which the City may have an interest, including contracts involving the City, covenants in deeds from/to the City, resolutions and ordinances of the City Council,
  3. prosecute violations of Class C misdemeanors that occur in the City limits,
  4. represent the City in lawsuits in which the City or one of its officials in their official capacity is a plaintiff or defendant, and
  5. serve as counsel to organizations that are officially affiliated with the City, such as the Victoria Planning Commission, the Victoria Building Boards, the Victoria Building and Standards Commission, the Victoria Sales Tax Development Corporation, and the Victoria Recreation Association.
City Attorney Miles K. Risley
Assistant City Attorney  
Municipal Court Prosecutor Doug A. Anderson

Questions involving Municipal Court prosecution should be directed to the prosecutor in the Municipal Court at (361) 485-3050.

Victoria City Code and Charter Texas Supreme Court
Texas Statutes Texas 13th Court of Appeals-Corpus Christi
Texas Administrative Code U.S. Supreme Court Opinions
Constitution of State of Texas U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals

Are you going to jail? (Acrobat Reader Required)
City of Victoria Warrant List - The list is only valid as of May 5, 2008.  Names are not removed until a new list is issued. New lists are issued approximately every month.  This list is not all inclusive. If your name is not listed, and you have an outstanding ticket in Municipal Court, you need to call Municipal Court at 361-485-3050.

List of tax-foreclosed properties for sale by Victoria County (contact Jeff Rutledge at 1-361-888-6898 or Jeff.Rutledge@publicans.com to make a bid on a property on this list).

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