Municipal courts must file a civil suit in the justice of the peace court to collect a final bond forfeiture judgment if the surety refuses to pay.

• A. True
• B. False
• C. Not specified
• D. There is no way to collect

Answer: (B)

The key idea is how bond forfeiture is resolved and enforced. When a bond is forfeited, the court issues a final judgment against the surety for the bond amount. If the surety refuses to pay, that judgment itself becomes a civil judgment that the municipality can enforce through standard collection methods. It doesn’t require a new civil suit filed in a Justice of the Peace court in every case; enforcement typically follows the normal civil-collection processes defined by local rules (often involving transferring or certifying the judgment to the appropriate county or using usual enforcement tools). So the statement is not correct because filing a separate civil action in the JP court is not universally required to collect a final bond forfeiture judgment.