Jennifer Rymell

Tarrant County Court at Law No. 2 — Occupational Driver's License Procedures (separate affidavit, required order provisions, interlock, log book, clerk's requirements)

County Court at Law No. 2's occupational driver's license procedures (page last modified May 19, 2025): the county courts at law lack jurisdiction over DWI-conviction suspensions and petitioners must be Tarrant residents for local suspensions; most unopposed petitions granted without a hearing; internet forms for criminal courts rejected, fill-in forms retyped; an affidavit separate from the verified petition with the license number, jurisdictional facts, suspension date, essential-need facts, hours and areas of travel, any four-hour-restriction waiver, interlock status for prior DWIs, SR-22 proof and an agreement to comply; repeat-DWI petitioners must install an interlock and restrict the order to that vehicle; a log-book clause and 12-hour daily limit; every order carries the court's standard conditions (no radar detector, no refusal of breath/blood/urine, no alcohol four hours before or while driving, no moving-violation convictions, liability insurance and SR-22, alcohol counseling with reporting); ALR appeals add an upholding clause; five business days for signature; the petitioner, not the clerk, forwards the certified order to DPS.