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The four standing orders adopted July 3, 2024 by all seven statutory County Court at Law judges of Collin County: No. 1 (video-redaction notice within 10 days of the trial-setting notice, deemed ORDERED absent specific State objection, waiver for untimely requests), No. 2 (court-appointed special commissioners in condemnation suits paid $250/hour with a 2-hour minimum), No. 3 (Use of Artificial Intelligence — mandatory disclosure and citation certification for any AI-assisted filing, with striking for non-compliance and a sample perjury-penalty certification), and No. 4 (a $60/month CSCD administrative fee under Gov't Code §76.015 to monitor ODL alcohol-detection devices, ODL revoked for non-payment).
Texas > Collin County > all seven County Courts at Law (Nos. 1–7; Hon. Corinne Mason, Barnett Walker, Lance S. Baxter, David Rippel, Randy Johnson, Jay A. Bender, David Waddill — the July 3, 2024 signature block matches the OCA bench) — the statutory county courts' standing orders; the district courts carry a separate, lighter AI regime in the Local Rules of Practice §4.8
STANDING ORDER NO. 1 — REDACTING OF VIDEOS: in a case set for jury trial, the defendant or defense attorney notifies the assistant district attorney in writing (fax, email, or letter) and copies the court "with the desired redactions of any relevant videotapes," stating the start and stop time-stamps and a brief reason for each; "The notice shall be sent within ten (10) days of the trial setting notice." If the DA's office does not object within ten days of presumed receipt "with specific objections to the requested redactions (not a general objection), the redactions shall be considered ORDERED without further action of this Court"; a specific objection is heard at the pre-trial hearing. Letter notice is presumed received three days after mailing; email or fax the same day (email subject line in all caps "NOTICE OF DESIRED VIDEO REDACTIONS," copied to the DA trial team). "FAILURE TO TIMELY REQUEST A REDACTION OF THE VIDEO WILL RESULT IN SUCH OBJECTION BEING WAIVED." STANDING ORDER NO. 2 — COMPENSATION OF SPECIAL COMMISSIONERS (CONDEMNATION): court-appointed special commissioners "shall be compensated a minimum [of] 2 hours for their time," actual time beyond two hours, "Furthermore, Special Commissioners shall be paid $250.00 per hour." STANDING ORDER NO. 3 — USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR ANY COURT FILING: "If any attorney for a party, or a self-represented party, has used AI in any way for the preparation of any filed document with the Court, the party MUST, in a clear and concise factual statement, disclose that AI was used in the preparation of the filing and CERTIFY that each and every citation to the law, or the record in the filed document, has been verified and is accurate. The Court reserves the right to rule as its sees fit on any Failure to comply with this standing order including but not limited to striking the non-compliant filing." The court supplies (but does not require verbatim) a sample certification: the filer's full name, date of birth, and address, then "I declare under penalty of perjury that: 1) I have read this document, 2) Artificial Intelligence ('AI') was used in the preparation of this document and 3) each and every citation to the law or the record in this document has been verified and is accurate." STANDING ORDER NO. 4 — ODL ALCOHOL-MONITORING FEES: the Collin County Community Supervision and Corrections Department (CSCD) "is hereby ORDERED to verify compliance and collect a $60.00 (sixty U.S. Dollars) per month administrative fee under Sec. 76.015 of the Government Code in addition to any costs of specimen testing that shall be payable by the ODL Petitioner" for alcohol-detection devices required for occupational driver's licenses; "Failure to timely pay this administrative fee by the ODL Petitioner SHALL result in the ODL being REVOKED."
Reviewer note: Four registered standing orders composed by vision (image-only scans rendered and read page-by-page 2026-08-28; all four signed July 3, 2024 by the seven CCL judges — signature block matches the OCA bench); Standing Order No. 3 is the county courts at law's AI regime, the mandatory-disclosure counterpart to the district courts' accuracy-verification LRP §4.8; own-site copies (county-courts-at-law/documents/ccl-standing-order-no1..4) are the same instruments; custody sha256s in the registry ledger (docs 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031).
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.