Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 45A.052 · Subchapter B. COURT RECORDS
COURT SEAL.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A justice or municipal court shall have a court seal.
(b) The impression of the court seal must be:
(1) attached to all papers issued out of the justice or municipal court except subpoenas; and
(2) used to authenticate the official acts of the clerk and of the recorder.
(c) A court seal may be created by electronic means, including:
(1) optical imaging;
(2) optical disk; or
(3) another electronic reproduction technique that does not permit changes, additions, or deletions to an original document created by the same type of system.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 765 (H.B. 4504), Sec. 1.001, eff. January 1, 2025.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CR/htm/CR.45A.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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