Tex. Gov't Code § 432.005 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
JUDGE ADVOCATES AND LEGAL OFFICERS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The adjutant general shall appoint an officer of the state military forces as state judge advocate general. To be eligible for appointment, an officer must be a member of the State Bar of Texas for at least five years.
(b) The adjutant general shall appoint judge advocates and legal officers on recommendation by the state judge advocate general. To be eligible for appointment, a judge advocate or legal officer must be an officer of the state military forces and a member of the State Bar of Texas.
(c) The state judge advocate general or his assistants shall make frequent inspections in the field in supervision of the administration of military justice.
(d) Convening authorities shall at all times communicate directly with their staff judge advocates or legal officers in matters relating to the administration of military justice. The staff judge advocates or legal officers of a command are entitled to communicate directly with the staff judge advocates or legal officers of a superior or subordinate command or with the state judge advocate general.
(e) A person who has acted as member, military judge, trial counsel, assistant trial counsel, defense counsel, assistant defense counsel, or investigating officer, or who has been a witness for either the prosecution or defense in a case, may not later act as staff judge advocate or legal officer to a reviewing authority on the same case.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 147, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987. Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 309, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.432.htm
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