Tex. Gov't Code § 34.001 · Chapter 34. CODE OF JUDICIAL CONDUCT; CANDIDATES FOR JUDICIAL OFFICE
CANDIDATE SUBJECT TO CODE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person who has filed an application for a place on the ballot as provided by the Election Code for a judicial office listed in Subsection (b) is subject to Canon 7, Code of Judicial Conduct, and is subject to sanctions as provided by this chapter.
(b) This chapter applies to candidates for the following offices:
(1) chief justice or justice of the supreme court;
(2) presiding judge or judge of the court of criminal appeals;
(3) chief justice or justice of a court of appeals;
(4) district judge, including a criminal district judge;
(5) judge of a statutory county court;
(6) county judge who performs judicial functions;
(7) justice of the peace; and
(8) municipal court judge.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 425, Sec. 1, eff. June 17, 1987. Amended by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 646, Sec. 4, eff. Aug. 28, 1989.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.34.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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