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The Eighth Administrative Judicial Region's Rules of Administration (promulgated under Article 200a-1, V.T.C.S., and the Supreme Court Rules of Judicial Administration adopted February 4, 1987), as registered in TOPICs (posted 01/01/2023): case-disposition time standards, county reporting, boards-of-judges local-rule mandates, jury and absence plans, and conflicting-engagement procedures. The registered document is the controlling text.
AUTHORITY. These rules are promulgated pursuant to Article 200a-1, V.T.C.S., and Supreme Court Rules of Judicial Administration, adopted February 4, 1987. … RULE 1. TIME STANDARDS FOR THE DISPOSITION OF CASES. District and statutory county court judges of the county in which cases are filed should, as far as reasonably possible, ensure that all cases brought to trial or final disposition in conformity with the following time standards: a. CRIMINAL CASES — As provided by law with preference given to defendants held in local custody. b. CIVIL CASES OTHER THAN FAMILY LAW — (1) Civil Jury Cases: Within 18 months from appearance date. (2) Civil Nonjury Cases: Within 12 months from appearance date. c. FAMILY LAW CASES — (1) Contested Family Law Cases: Within 6 months from appearance date or within 6 months from the expiration of the waiting period provided by the Family Code where such is required, whichever is later. (2) Uncontested Family Law Cases: Within 3 months from appearance date or within 3 months from the expiration of the waiting period provided by the Family Code where such is required, whichever is later. d. JUVENILE CASES — As provided by Title 3, Texas Family Code or other applicable law. e. COMPLEX CASES — It is recognized that in especially complex cases or special circumstances it may not be possible to adhere to these standards. … RULE 2. The local administrative judge of each county shall cause the proper clerk to send the regional presiding judge a copy of the report sent each month to the Office of Court Administration, and such other information regarding docket management systems of the county as may be requested by the presiding judge. RULE 3. The board of judges or judges giving preference to civil cases in each county must adopt and uniformly follow local rules governing the filing, docketing and assignment of civil cases to achieve the time standards of Rule 6, Supreme Court Rules of Judicial Administration, and meet the requirements of Rules 7, 9, and 10, Supreme Court Rules of Judicial Administration. RULE 4. The board of judges or judges giving preference to family law and juvenile cases in each county must adopt and uniformly follow local rules governing the filing, docketing and assignment of family law and juvenile cases to achieve the time standards of Rule 6, Supreme Court Rules of Judicial Administration, and meet the requirements of Rules 7, 9, and 10, Supreme Court Rules of Judicial Administration. RULE 5. The board of judges or judges giving preference to criminal cases in each county must adopt and uniformly follow local rules conforming with the Code of Criminal Procedure, for the processing of criminal cases. 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 presiding 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 section numerical system and decimal subsection system in accordance with the following description of content. 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 Chapter 5, Article 200a-1, V.T.C.S. RULE 10. CONFLICTING ENGAGEMENTS. (a) Attorney already in trial in another court: (1) When an attorney is presently in trial, said attorney shall inform other courts of the court and cause number of the conflicting trial. This information will be verified upon request of opposing counsel. The case will be placed on "hold" or reset, depending on when the attorney will be released.
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 0dc33147a056…) is the controlling text.
Establishes a Traffic Violations Bureau within the Clerk of the County Court under Fla. R. Traf. Ct. 6.100(a) (Burnstein, C.J., Nov. 1, 1988).
Approves the National Highway Safety Council Defensive Driving course as a school to which traffic courts may require attendance (Fla. R. Traf. Ct. 6.110(a)).
Designates the D.W.I. Counterattack School (Broward County Commission on Alcoholism) as an approved school for court-ordered attendance (Fla. R. Traf. Ct. 6.110(a)).