Tex. Gov't Code § 24.547 · Subchapter C. JUDICIAL DISTRICTS ACT OF 1969
402ND JUDICIAL DISTRICT (WOOD COUNTY).
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The 402nd Judicial District is composed of Wood County.
(b) The 402nd District Court has concurrent jurisdiction with the county court in Wood County over all matters of civil and criminal jurisdiction, original and appellate, in cases over which the county court has jurisdiction under the constitution and laws of this state. Matters and proceedings in the concurrent jurisdiction of the 402nd District Court and the county court may be filed in either court and all cases of concurrent jurisdiction may be transferred between the 402nd District Court and the county court. However, a case may not be transferred from one court to another without the consent of the judge of the court to which it is transferred, and a case may not be transferred unless it is within the jurisdiction of the court to which it is transferred.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1337, Sec. 10, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.24.htm
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- sha256 279524ed460b03bfff4ccc41842504a3fd0e4fc7eefceb5027f03cc1950cdbe4
- Composed by
- 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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