Tex. Gov't Code § 27.033 · Subchapter B. JURISDICTION AND POWERS

OTHER POWERS.

Verbatim from the official edition

Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

A justice of the peace may:

(1) exercise jurisdiction over other matters cognizable before a justice of the peace under any law of this state; and

(2) proceed with all unfinished business of the office as if the business had been originally begun before that justice.

Notes and commentary — not statutory text

History

Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 480, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.

Source of truth

Edition: Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
Official file: https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.27.htm
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