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The Fourth Administrative Judicial Region's Rules of Administration, approved by the Supreme Court of Texas December 7, 1993 (Misc. Docket No. 93-0247), as registered in TOPICs (posted 01/01/2023): case-disposition time standards including detailed juvenile hearing deadlines, continuance limits, and the county boards-of-judges local-rule mandates. The registered document is the controlling text.
SIGNED AND ENTERED this 7th day of December, 1993. [Supreme Court of Texas, Misc. Docket No. 93-0247 — Thomas R. Phillips, Chief Justice, and eight Justices.] … Juvenile cases: (1) Detention Hearings — On the next business day following admission to any detention facility. (2) Adjudicatory or Transfer (Waiver) Hearings — (a) Concerning a juvenile in a detention facility: Not later than 10 days following admission to such a facility, except for good cause shown on record. (b) Concerning a juvenile not in a detention facility: Not later than 30 days following the filing of the petition, except for good cause shown of record. (3) Disposition Hearings — Not later than 15 days following the adjudicatory hearing. The court may grant additional time in exceptional cases requiring more complex evaluation. (4) Nothing herein shall prevent a judge from recessing a juvenile hearing at any stage of the proceeding where the parties are agreeable or when in the opinion of the judge presiding in the case the best interests of child and of society shall be served. e. COMPLEX CASES — It is recognized that in especially complex cases or special circumstances it may not be possible to adhere to these standards. f. CONTINUANCE — A continuance shall not be granted except as permitted by law and upon proper motion as required by the Rules of Procedure. … RULE 6. The board of judges of each county must adopt a jury plan governing the selection, management, assignment and time of jury service, and file the same with the district clerk, and, when required, secure the approval of the commissioners court. RULE 7. The board of judges of each county must adopt a plan for judicial absences for vacation and educational events and a method of notifying the regional judge of the need for visiting judges. RULE 8. (a) The rules adopted by the several counties within each administrative region must conform to the requirements of these rules. (b) The local rules must be numbered to cover the same subject matter as prescribed by these rules using a selection numerical system and decimal subsection system in accordance with the following description of content. In the absence of a section of subsection, interested persons may assume there is no rule covering the described subject. Local rules shall use a decimal system allowing for a larger group of special circumstances. (c) Local rules shall not be effective until approved by the presiding judge of the administrative region and by the Supreme Court of Texas. RULE 9. The board of judges of each county must adopt as a part of the local rules a rule providing for regular meetings of the judges, committee assignments and other designations of duties necessary to the work of the courts of the county as required by 5, Article 200a-1, V.T.C.S.
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 bc671d3b05db…) is the controlling text.
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