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The Regional Rules of Administration governing the district and statutory county courts of the Second Administrative Judicial Region of Texas (adopted 1995, effective January 3, 1996; amended 2007 and 2016). Eleven rules: case-disposition time standards (felonies 12 months, misdemeanors 6, civil jury 18 / non-jury 12, contested family 6 / uncontested 3, and the juvenile deadlines); the duty to supply docket information to the Regional Presiding Judge; the requirement that each county adopt conforming local rules for civil, family/juvenile and criminal dispositions and a jury plan; judicial-absence plans; the rule-with-respect-to-rules (numbering and Supreme-Court/Presiding-Judge approval for effectiveness); local court administration including recusal-referral procedure to the Presiding Judge (Rule 18a) and recording/broadcasting standards; conflicting engagements of attorneys; and the four-week attorney-vacation rule.
Texas > Second Administrative Judicial Region (AJR-2) > all district and statutory county courts of the 22-county region. Region-scoped; applies alongside each county’s local rules.
Rule 1 sets case-disposition time standards (criminal: felonies 12 months / misdemeanors 6; civil jury 18 / non-jury 12; contested family 6 / uncontested 3 months; enumerated juvenile deadlines). Rules 3–7 require each county’s board of judges to adopt conforming local rules and a jury plan and a judicial-absence plan. Rule 8 requires local rules to be numbered to the regional scheme and to be approved by the Regional Presiding Judge and the Supreme Court to be effective. Rule 9 governs recusal/disqualification referral to the Presiding Judge (TRCP 18a) and recording/broadcasting of proceedings. Rule 10 sets conflicting-engagement priorities; Rule 11 allows an attorney up to four designated vacation weeks per year (summer designations filed by May 15, non-summer by February 1).
Reviewer note: Instrument-true recompose from the full 5-page text (12,803 chars), byte-identical to TOPICs doc 67. Replaces the recon-era twin tx-topics-67-second-administrative-judicial-region-of-texas-reg, which is archived with a successor pointer to this slug. Composed benchpath-ajr2-region.
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