Tex. Gov't Code § 30.01273 · Subchapter GG. LAKE WORTH
JOINT COURTS: CREATION.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The governing body of the city may contract with one or more municipalities that have municipal courts of record to establish a joint municipal court of record to serve the contracting municipalities.
(b) A joint municipal court of record created under this section replaces each municipality's individual municipal court of record.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 182, Sec. 1, eff. May 21, 1997.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.30.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
Cited by 4 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Gov't Code § 30.01273. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Government Code
- Tex. Gov't Code § 30.01274JOINT COURT: JUDGES.Printed as Section 30.01273
- Tex. Gov't Code § 30.01275JOINT COURTS: JURISDICTION.Printed as Section 30.01273
- Tex. Gov't Code § 30.01276JOINT COURT: PROSECUTING ATTORNEY.Printed as Section 30.01273
- Tex. Gov't Code § 30.01277JOINT COURT: APPLICABLE LAW.Printed as Section 30.01273 | Sections 30.01273-30.01276
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