County Court at Law No. 3's occupational driver's license procedures (page last modified Oct. 31, 2023): no jurisdiction over DWI-conviction suspensions; Tarrant residency for local suspensions; most unopposed petitions granted without a hearing, but pro se litigants and petitioners under 25 require one and fill-in-the-blank forms are not accepted; a separate affidavit with the listed contents; since Sept. 1, 2023 a certified abstract of the petitioner's complete driving record under Transportation Code § 521.2421; interlock and log-book clauses; hearings required for safety-responsibility, habitual-violator, under-25 alcohol suspensions, all pro se applications and on the District Attorney's request; the court's Preferred Order with the standard conditions; ALR-appeal clause; five business days for signature; the petitioner forwards the certified order to DPS.
Texas > Tarrant County > County Court at Law No. 3 — petitioners for occupational driver's licenses and their counsel.
"County Court at Law No. 3 will grant most unopposed occupational driver's licenses without a hearing. Pro se litigants and Petitioners under 25 years of age will require a hearing. Do not use orders or affidavits that are found on the Internet, most are for criminal courts only. This is a civil court. If you have a 'fill-in-the-blank' form, you must handwrite it or re-type it. The Court will not
Reviewer note: Own-site HTML page read in full 2026-09-06 from custody; quoted verbatim (statutory cross-references as printed). Joined to Judge Mike Hrabal as the court's current (2023) posting. Composed benchpath-ajr8-tarrant (own-site lane).
G-2026-045-SC required anyone using generative AI to disclose it on the face of the filing and add a scripted certification, on pain of striking, denial of relief or monetary penalties. Rule 2.515(d)(2) and AOSC26-12 preempted it on June 15, 2026, so it could not be enforced — and by August 16, 2026 the Seventh Circuit had removed the order from its published register (no rescission instrument appears there). BenchPath holds the hashed capture as the historical record.
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