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The Third Administrative Judicial Region's Rules of Administration (Council of Judges, Tex. Gov't Code § 74.048(c) and RJA Rule 4(c)), as registered in TOPICs (posted 01/01/2023): local-rule adoption duties, attorney vacation notices, conflicting-engagement priorities, judge assignment, and courtroom decorum guidelines. The registered document is the controlling text.
Authority. These rules are promulgated by the Council of Judges of the Third Administrative Judicial Region of the State of Texas pursuant to Section 74.048 (c), Texas Government Code and Rule 4 (c) of the Rules of Judicial Administration as adopted by the Supreme Court of Texas and amended through January 1, 1999. Rule 1: These rules apply to all district and statutory county courts of the Third Administrative Judicial Region of the State of Texas. … Rule 3: Each court in this region shall adopt and uniformly follow local rules governing the filing, docketing and assignment of cases to achieve the time standards of Rule 6 of the Supreme Court Rules of Judicial Administration, so far as reasonably possible; and meet the requirements of Rules 7, 9 and 10 of the Supreme Court Rules of Judicial Administration. A. If there are both district and statutory county courts in a county, the judges of each level of court shall adopt local rules as contemplated by this rule. Such judges shall attempt to make all local rules uniform within a county so far as reasonable possible. B. If there is more than one court in a county at either level of court, all judges of each level of court shall adopt uniform local rules as contemplated by this rule. Such rules shall be adopted by majority vote. … Rule 6: Attorney Vacations. A. A case shall not be set for trial during a week for which an attorney in charge, as defined by Rule 8, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, has given a vacation notice that complies with this Rule 6. Attorneys may give vacation notices by designating a maximum of four weeks in a given calendar year and by filing a written notification with the appropriate clerk and court administrator of any county in which such attorney has a pending case. B. Such notice must be filed a least ninety (90) days in advance of each designated vacation week, and such a notice shall apply only to cases not already scheduled for trial. … Rule 7: Conflicting Engagements. A. If an attorney is actually in trial in one court, such attorney may not be put to trial in another court. B. When an attorney is assigned to two courts for the same date: 1. It is the duty of the attorney to call the affected judges' attention to all conflicting settings as soon as they are known or reasonably may be anticipated. … 3. The following priorities are established to aid judges in determining which case has priority: a. Criminal case … b. Case given preference by statute c. Earliest set case d. Earliest filed case e. Courts in multi-judge counties should yield to single judge counties and courts of multi-county districts. C. In the event the affected judges cannot agree on which case has priority, the question shall be resolved by the regional presiding judge or judges. If two or more regions are affected and the regional presiding judges cannot agree, the question shall be resolved by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Texas, or by another Supreme Court Justice designated by the Chief Justice. … Rule 8: Assignment of Judges. A. Whenever needed, the regional presiding judge will assign judges, as provided by law, to preside in any court of the administrative region to try cases and dispose of accumulated business. … B. Claims by assigned judges for expenses, and claims by assigned senior and former judges for pay and per diem, are subject to the approval of the regional presiding judge before the expense claims are submitted to the appropriate county auditor, and the pay and per diem claims to the state comptroller. Promptly after completing an assignment, the assigned judge shall use forms provided by the regional presiding judge to submit such claims for that judge's approval.
Reviewer note: The registered PDF is a scan whose embedded OCR text layer carries visible errors, so the operative provisions were rasterized at 170 dpi and transcribed verbatim from the page images (benchpath-scan-transcription method); the registered PDF (sha256 14793d98aac3…) is the controlling text.
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